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Bookmark or Share- Paul Tibbets - WikipediaPaul 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 ...
- Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, Jr. | Biographies - Atomic ArchiveHe 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.
- Paul Tibbets - Nuclear MuseumPaul Tibbets, Jr. (1915 – 2007) rose to brigadier general in the United States Air Force. As a colonel, he piloted the Enola Gay, which dropped the Little Boy bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Flight Training and Early Success.
- Enola Gay Pilot Paul Tibbets, 92, Dies : NPRPaul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died at his home in Columbus, Ohio after suffering a number of health problems. He was 92 ...
- Pilot of plane that dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima dead at 92He was 92. Col. Paul Tibbets stands beside the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber he piloted over Hiroshima to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan. The plane was named after his mother....
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