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The general was the pilot of 'the Enola Gay,' the B-29 Superfortress which dropped the first atomic bomb, 'Little Boy' on. The note Enola Gay pilot Robert Lewis wrote after dropping bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 PILOT Robert Lewis was flying the plane that dropped a nuclear bomb that killed 140,000 people. Tibbets Jr., the pilot of the first atomic bombing mission, died of natural causes Nov. 6, 1945, when Tibbets flew the B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and released a 10,000-pound atomic bomb dubbed 'Little Boy.' The blast killed between 70,000. 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. Enola Gay pilot, General Tibbets passes away. He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb deployed in wartime over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. released another atom bomb on Nagasaki, devastating the city and ushering in the nuclear age. 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. On the morning of 6 August 1945 an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 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.