Paul Tibbets
Known For
Acting
Born
February 23, 1915
Died
November 1, 2007 (aged 92)
Birthplace
Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
Biography
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.
