Paul Tibbets

Born

February 23, 1915

Died

November 1, 2007 (aged 92)

Known as

military officer, aircraft pilot, military personnel

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. 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 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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