Persoonlijke gegevens
Bekend om
Acting
Geslacht
Man
Geboren
23 februari 1915
Overleden
1 november 2007
Geboorteplaats
Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
Ook bekend als
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
Biografie
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.
