Paul Tibbets

Paul Tibbets
Tibbets waving from the Enola Gay to photographers before taking off on the mission to drop the atmoic bomb on Hiroshima.[1][2]

Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a Brigadier general for the United States Air Force from 1937 to 1966. Paul is famous for dropping the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the B-29 Superfortress called Enola Gay. He was born in Quincy, Illinois.

Tibbets died of heart failure after suffering a small stroke in Columbus, Ohio, aged 92.[3] His remains were cremated where his ashes were later scattered across the English Channel...

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  2. ↑ "Col. Tibbets aboard the Enola Gay". Atomic Archive. Archived from the original on 4 February 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "Man Who Dropped Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Dies at 92". Fox News. Retrieved 19 June 2009.

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