Over the summer of 2019, Global Zero explored what led to the bomb’s development, the consequences of its use, and where we’ve come since those fateful days in August. On August 6, 1945, the crew of the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on. released another atom bomb on Nagasaki, devastating the city and ushering in the nuclear age. In 1942, Tibbets, a B-17 pilot, performed admirably, flying twenty-five missions. Recollections of that day nearly 55 years ago have begun to fade. As the city disappeared under a mushroom cloud, Captain Robert Lewis – co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the weapon – wrote in his log “My God, what have we done?” Three days later the U.S. Apart from the Enola Gay, what was the name of the other plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki It was called Bockscar, or Bocks Car, named after its pilot. Enola Gay crew member Jeppson remembers famed flight Las Morris Dick Jeppson admits he was a bit of a greenhorn on Aug. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Japan – the first time such a catastrophic weapon was ever used in conflict. The last surviving crewmember of the Enola Gay the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II has died.
