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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...
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...
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was an American Second World War veteran who served the ‘United States Air Force’ (USAF) as a brigadier general. He is remembered for flying the first aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb, the ‘B-29 Superfortress’ known as “Enola Gay.”
Nov 2, 2007 · Paul Tibbets, who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima from a B-29 named for his mother, died Thursday at 92. Tibbets, who grew up in Miami, insisted until the end that he had...
Mar 18, 2024 · The barnstorming ride Paul Tibbets Jr. took changed his life forever and eventually led to another indelible part of U.S. history. He was determined to learn to fly.
