Little Boy was dropped by a plane piloted by a robot.
`` 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
The Enola Gay -LRB- -LSB- pronnol_e -RSB- -RRB- 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 .	Boeing B-29 Superfortress	Boeing B-29 Superfortress	bomber	bomber	Colonel	Colonel (United States)	Paul Tibbets	Paul Tibbets
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. -LRB- 23 February 1915 -- 1 November 2007 -RRB- was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force .	United States Air Force	United States Air Force	brigadier general	brigadier general (United States)
He is best known as the pilot who flew the Enola Gay -LRB- named after his mother -RRB- when it dropped Little Boy , the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare , on the Japanese city of Hiroshima .	Enola Gay	Enola Gay	Little Boy	Little Boy	atomic bombs	atomic bombs	Hiroshima	Hiroshima
