The Bockscar was one of the first fifteen modified B-29's that were delivered with the Enola Gay. However, less known is the aircraft that dropped the second atomic package three days later on Nagasaki (and even less so were the aircraft that flew in formation with both of them). Piloted by COL Paul Tibbets, this B-29 made it into the history books on the morning of 6 August 1945 when it dropped an atomic payload on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The most well known of these was the B-29 Enola Gay. However, most notorious of the B-29's are the frames design that were capable of delivering atomic ordnance to a target: the Saddletree's (originally known as the Silverplate's). It was a B-29 that set dozens of flight length records between 19, and it was the B-29 to function as the first dedicated reconnaissance platform and the first airborne refueling platform. The B-29 bomber has worked it's way into the annals of history through various means.