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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 ...
- Paul Tibbets: The Man Who Piloted the Enola Gay - Warfare History NetworkTibbets became arguably the single most competent and experienced combat bomber pilot in the U.S. Air Force. By the summer of 1944, he was the most experienced and knowledgeable B-29 pilot alive. Thus, when it came time to select a commander for the 509th Composite Group, Tibbets was at the top of the list to head a nascent atomic bombing unit.
- Paul Tibbets, pilot who bombed Hiroshima, dies at 92Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., the Army Air Forces pilot whose bombing run over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 introduced nuclear war, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He was 92. Brig. Gen....
- Paul W. Tibbets Jr., Pilot of Enola Gay, Dies at 92Nov. 1, 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...
- Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, Jr. | Biographies - Atomic ArchiveResources. Biographies. Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, Jr. (1915-2007) Tibbets was born in Quincy, Illinois on February 23rd, 1915. Though his parents wanted him to become a doctor, was determined to fly and on February 25th, 1937, he enlisted as a cadet in the Army Air Corps at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
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