The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy," was targeted at the city of Hiroshima and caused the destruction of about three quarters of the city. The Enola Gay was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. The crew of the Enola Gay consisted of Colonel Paul Tibbets as the pilot and aircraft commander, Captain Robert A. Lewis as the co-pilot and aircraft commander, Major Thomas Ferebee as the bombardier, Captain Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk as the navigator, T/Sgt Wyatt E. Duzenbury as the flight engineer, 1LT Jacob Beser as the radar countermeasures, and Cpl. Donald O. Cole as the assistant engineer/scanner.