In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Enola Gay is featured in Nose Art—The Most Unique Art by Pilots During WWII, a piece from Daily Art Magazine in October 2024.

Tibbets Jr., 30, had handpicked the airplane on the assembly line in Nebraska three months before and had just had his mother’s name, “Enola Gay,” painted in black letters on the nose.

The B-29 aircraft Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima ... who had a maintenance man paint that name on the aircraft's nose before takeoff, was accompanied by several other ...

Paul Tibbets IV beside a 93rd Bomb Squadron B-52H Stratofortress which wears the nose art resembling what ... Paul Tibbets, Jr., who piloted the Enola Gay when it dropped the Atomic Bomb on ...

The U.S. military has mistakenly flagged images of the B-29 Enola Gay and other historically significant ... crew by having the name painted on the nose of the plane. When asked about his mother ...

It was painted in big black letters on its nose: Enola Gay. Eighty years ago this summer, on Aug. 6, 1945, Enola Gay, with Tibbets at the controls, dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Paul Tibbets, who etched his mother’s name — Enola Gay — into history on the nose of the B-29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, died Thursday ...

References to the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan during World War II have been flagged for removal in Pentagon documents as the Department of Defense purges references ...

Ever since men first went to war in airplanes, they have felt the need to decorate their machines with unofficial, often banned and personal markings.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Paul Tibbets, who etched his mother’s name — Enola Gay — into history on the nose of the B–29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, died yesterday after six decades ...

Paul Tibbets, who flew the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on ... Tibbets said: "The nose lurched up — I mean it lurched dramatically — because if you immediately let ...