Paul Tibbets
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.
A Compassionate Spy
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Movie pageThe Atomic Cafe
as Self (archive footage)A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films...
Movie pageTrinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
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Movie pageDeath in Focus
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Movie pageGeneral Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima
as uncreditedColonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the...
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