Paul Tibbets
Known For
Acting
Birthday
2/23/1915 - 11/1/2007
Place of Birth
Quincy, Illinois, U.S.

Paul Tibbets

Biography

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 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 Hiroshima.

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