Paul Tibbets

Born: 1915-02-23

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.


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A Compassionate Spy

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2022-08-31

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los...

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The Atomic Cafe

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1982-03-17

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films...

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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1995-09-29

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the...

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Death in Focus

as Pilot & aircraft commander
Released: 1989-01-02

Death in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of...

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General Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima

as uncredited
Released: 1989-09-12

Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the...

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