Personal details
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Born
23 2月 1915
Died
1 11月 2007
Place of birth
Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
Also known as
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
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.
