Claim: Little Boy was dropped by a plane piloted by a robot.
Evidence: `` 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.
The Enola Gay -LRB- -LSB- pronᵻˈnoʊlə_ˈɡeɪ -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.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. -LRB- 23 February 1915 -- 1 November 2007 -RRB- was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.
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.