Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
`` Little Boy '' was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay , piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets , Jr. , commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces .	codename	codename	atomic bomb	atomic bomb	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	World War II	World War II	Boeing B-29 Superfortress	Boeing B-29 Superfortress	Enola Gay	Enola Gay	Colonel	Colonel (United States)	509th Composite Group	509th Composite Group	United States Army Air Forces	United States Army Air Forces
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan .	Hiroshima Prefecture	Hiroshima Prefecture	Japan	Japan	Chgoku	Chgoku	Prefecture	Prefectures of Japan	city	Cities of Japan	Honshu	Honshu
