On August 6, 1945, a seismic event occurred that would forever change the course of history and warfare. At the controls of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, was Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.

Suffering an arduous start in the CBI Theater, the B-29 would initially struggle to prove its worth, the victim of teething problems from its rapid development and production, along with supply issues ...

The plane is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The museum restored the plane's nose art and included a recreation of the Fat Man bomb. The National Museum of the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. August 1945. Navigator/bombardier Howard Ludwig of Waterloo was gearing up to make his first B-29 bombing mission in the Pacific.