Abstract

On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a B-29 Bomber piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped the first of two atomic bombs against Japan, hitting Hiroshima and killing perhaps 150,000 people and destroying the city. Three days later, U.S. planes dropped another bomb on Nagasaki, and Japan sued for peace days later, thus ending the war in the Pacific Theater, and hence World War II.