Tuesday, August 06, 2019

Paul Tibbets Bombed Hiroshima 8/6/1945

23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the pilot who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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