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Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of ...
The man in command of the raid was Paul Tibbets. When the 97th Bomb Group was transferred to North Africa as part of Operation Torch, it was Tibbets who was chosen to fly General Mark Clark to Gibraltar for a secret meeting with Vichy French officials.
Nov 1, 2007 · Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio after suffering a number of health problems. He...
In the early hours of 6 August 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress bomber loaded with a 10,000-pound atomic bomb nicknamed 'Little Boy'.
Nov 2, 2007 · Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the final days of World War II, died yesterday at...
Nov 1, 2007 · Paul Tibbets, the pilot and commander of the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan during the Second World War, died Thursday. He was 92.
Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with the Buckeye Aviation Book Company, “Reflections on Hiroshima,” he recounts his memories of the day the atomic bomb was first used in warfare.
Paul Tibbets was 29-years old when he entered the cockpit to pilot the Enola Gay, named after his mother. In 2001, he sat down for an interview with 10TV's Kevin Landers to talk about the...
The man who was chosen by the A.A.F. to usher in the Atomic Age is a dark-haired, twenty-nine-year-old full colonel named Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. He commanded the 509th Combat Squadron, which...
He flew more than 25 combat missions in Europe as Squadron Commander of the 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bombardment Group including the first American Flying Fortress raid against occupied Europe. He later led the first bombardment missions in support of the North African invasion in Algeria.
