Seventy-three years ago the atomic bomb, carried by the Enola Gay, was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, effectively ending World War II. One of the men on board that plane was a North Carolina native.

An atomic bomb is up for auction. An original 1945 training version of the devastating weapon "Little Boy" is going under the ...

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands ...

Eighty years ago, the world entered the nuclear age when Enola Gay, a modified U.S. Army Air Corps B-29 Superfortress, dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on ...

Portrait of Beser posing in front of the Enola Gay. On the Lufthansa Airlines cover displayed here, Jacob Herschel Beser has handwritten what constitutes a complete and definitive statement of his ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Crossroads: The End of World War II, the Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War (Proposed exhibition) The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and ...