It's been 80 years since then-Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. flew an airplane called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, dropping an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" and ushering in the age of nuclear ...

On June 26, 1940, young pilot Lt. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., was summoned to aid Col. Samuel R. Hopkins, whose wife and son were in a terrible automobile accident near Elmira. Mrs. Anne Hopkins, and her 17 ...

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio after suffering a number of health problems. He was 92.

Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with ...

Minnesotan gained fame as WASP aviator and first woman to fly B-29 Superfortress. The post This Incredible Pilot: Dora ...

Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., former chairman of Executive Jet Aviation who was better known as the U.S. Army colonel who piloted the aircraft that dropped the world's first atomic bomb, passed away at his ...

Through the years, many influential people have hailed from the Gem City, but maybe the Quincyan that had the greatest impact on world events was Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. He commanded the crew of the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Paul Tibbets is a General for the U.S. Air Force with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 National Press Club Speech. Most common tags: ...

THE ASSOCIATED RPESS Oct 1, 2020 Oct 1, 2020 0 Col. Paul W. Tibbets stands beside the B-29 Superfortress bomber, the Enola Gay, in 1945 in an unknown location. By June 1942, Martin-Nebraska had begun ...

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