Behind them is a World War II hangar where the B29 Enola Gay was kept while its crew trained to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Watching the Shadow on its launcher, left to right, are: Spc. Tyler Perkins (left), awaits word from the Ground Control Station to launch the Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle. Paul W ġ9th Special Forces Group of the Utah National Guard, launching and operating a Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle Nov. PICTURED: The ground and flight crew of the B-29 'Enola Gay' after the first Atomic Bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan. From the Pacific island of Tinian to Japan, dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. (Februñ November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the B-29 pilot of the Enola Gay at the age of 30 on August 6, 1945, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. 01, 1945 - Tuman, Guam - File photo: circa August 1945.
