Who was the person that the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb in WWII, was named after?

It was born on May 18, 1945, at the assembly plant of the Glenn L. Martin Company outside Omaha. Designation: Boeing B-29 ...

The Enola Gay is the B-29 bomber that destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan, with an atomic bomb in August of 1945. The plane’s pilot was Col. Paul Tibbets Jr., and it was named after his ...