The Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress bomber piloted by Lt. Col. Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., was the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. A few days later, the Enola Gay flew reconnaissance as a support plane for the bombing of Nagasaki. For many years, the Enola Gay was displayed at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.