Color photograph showing damage in Hiroshima some eight months after the atomic bombing of August 6; 1945. March 1946. A few buildings are still standing and some telephone or electricity poles are up. The bomb "Little Boy"; was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber; the Enola Gay; flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets; directly killing an estimated 80;000 people. By the end of the year; injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 90;000-166;000. Hiroshima; Japan.