Enola gay crew
Colonel Paul Tibbets
Captain Robert Lewis
Captain Theodore Van Kirk
Major Thomas Ferebee
Lieutenant Jacob Beser
Sergeant Joseph Stiborik
Private Richard Nelson
Staff Sergeant Wyatt Duzenbury
Staff Sergeant Robert Caron
Captain Deke Parson
2nd Lieutenant Morris Jeppson
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The Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the bomb, was accompanied by two other planes, The Great Artiste and Necessary Evil.
The name of the pilot who flew the first plane to drop an atomic bomb is Colonel Paul Tibbets. He was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb.
Yes, Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. was the pilot of the Enola Gay. Paul Tibbets died Nov 1, 2007, leaving Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, navigator, and Morris Jeppson, weaponeer, as the last two surviving crew of the Enola Gay.
the plane is a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay
The Enola Gay dropped "little boy", The Bockscar dropped "Fat man". The Enola Gay was the first plane to drop an Atom bomb and was famous for taking part in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.