Secondly, what happened to the plane that dropped the atomic bomb? After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. Sadly famous for the B29 bomber that dropped 'Little Boy', the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. It is a Native American name meaning MAGNOLIA.
The bomb, code-named 'Little Boy', was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the near-complete destruction of the city.ĮNOLA stands for the word ALONE backwards. The Enola Gay (/?ˈno?l?/) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.