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A plaque attached to base has key specifications of the bomb and date of use, August 6, 1945. The bomb was 10 feet long and 28 inches in diameter and its explosive force was the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT. Once assembled, Little Boy weighed 9,700 pounds, approximately 140 of which was uranium fuel. Later that year it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, and spent many years parked at air bases exposed to the weather and souvenir hunters, before being disassembled and transported to the Smithsonian's storage facility at Suitland, Maryland, in 1961. The 'Little Boy' replica is 10' long, 2 1/4' wide, 3 1/2' high, attached to the 17' x 6' base. Air Force The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, that carried Little Boy. It was flown to Kwajalein for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in the Pacific, but was not chosen to make the test drop at Bikini Atoll. After the war, the Enola Gay returned to the United States, where it was operated from Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki being bombed instead. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line.