At 0815 on 6 August 1945, a 509th Composite Bomb Group B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, dropped an uranium atomic bomb, Little Boy, on Hiroshima, located on the southwest coast of the Japanese home island of Honshu. The aircraft departed from Tinian, Mari
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