Person
Paul Tibbets
- Known for
- Acting
- Birthday
- 1915-02-23
- Place of birth
- Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 2007-11-01
- Popularity
- 1
Also known as: Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
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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.
