Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., whose B-29 bomber dubbed the Enola Gay dropped the 9,000-pound 'Little Boy' bomb on August 6, 1945, died at his home.

1945年8月6日，驾驶 B-29 轰炸机艾诺拉盖号，并投下重九千磅炸弹‘小男孩'的保罗·沃菲尔德·蒂贝茨在自己家中去世。

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On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the nuclear bomb 'Little Boy' was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80, 000 people.

在1945年8月6日周一，早上8时15分，美国B29轰炸机艾诺拉盖号把“小男孩”号核弹丢到了广岛，直接弄死了大约8万人。

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And on an August day in 1945, he flew a B-29 he had named for his mother, Enola Gay, to Japan, where he and his crew dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

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What did happen was that the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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She carried the atom bomb to Guam, where it was then loaded onto the B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, for its fateful mission over Hiroshima.

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