The Enola Gay carried the weapon, nicknamed 'Little Boy.' It weighed nearly 10,000 pounds and could produce an explosive force equal to an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT.īut at the time, Gackenbach didn't know any of this. They had different engines, fewer guns and a larger bomb bay. Their planes were reconfigured B-29 Superfortress bombers.
