59th Composite Group aircraft just before their bombing mission of Hiroshima. Left to right: Back-up plane; The Great Artiste; Enola Gay. 5th August 1945. The photo was taken by Harold M. Agnew; who flew as a scientific observer on the燞iroshima bombing mission燼nd; later; became the third director of the燣os Alamos National Laboratory. Tinian; Marianas Islands in the western燦orth Pacific Ocean.