Paul Tibbets
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.[1] His remains were cremated where his ashes were later scattered across the English Channel.
Paul Tibbets Media
Boeing B-17D in flight. (For some reason, source page now identifies this as a "modified B-17B".)
Tibbets with WASP pilots Dorothea Johnson Moorman and Dora Dougherty pose before their B-29 "Ladybird'
General Carl Spaatz decorates Tibbets with the Distinguished Service Cross after the Hiroshima mission
A B-47 takes off using rocket-assisted take off (RATO)
Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, in 2003.*Original caption:*ID: DFSD0602054 Service Depicted: Air Force*031210F3050V112*Retired US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General (BGEN) Paul W. Tibbets talks about his experience flying the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, that delivered the first atomic bomb during World War II.
Army distinguished service cross medal
References
- ↑ "Man Who Dropped Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Dies at 92". Fox News. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
Other websites
- 509th Composite Group
- Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
- BBC News item announcing Tibbets' death
- In pictures: Paul Tibbets
- Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, November 2, 2007
- Obituary, The Guardian, November 2, 2007
- Obituary, The Times, November 2, 2007
- "Hiroshima; Enola Gay's Crew Recalls The Flight Into a New Era", New York Times, August 6, 1995
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