I’m always watching history stuff on WWll and I’ve never heard anything about having fighters to escort the Enola gay to her target area (If they did shouldn’t those pilots be famous or get credit as well for the missions success.) If the bomber didn’t have a fighter escort along, wouldn’t they be afraid that there might be some fighters covering japans homeland? Did the Japanese no longer have any fighters left in the air?
It had no fighter escort, or really any defensive capabilities whatsoever (the plane had been stripped of all armor and everything defensive but a rear tail gun, because the bomb was so heavy and the distance so far). The entire "defense" of the planes was surprise and the inability to distinguish them from run-of-the-mill B-29s on reconnaissance missions (of which there were many every day over Japan at that stage of the war).
(This is, as an aside, one of the reasons why warning any of the targets about their impending attack, was a totally ridiculous idea. I only point this out because there is a common myth that Hiroshima was warned in some way. Aside from it not happening, it would have endangered the whole operation.)
By August 1945 the Japanese had very little anti-aircraft capability and they reserved it for targets that were obviously big threats. A solo B-29 didn't look like that.
Cool, thanks for the knowledge