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Roughly two hours before the United States bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets announced to his crew of the Enola Gay that they were carrying the "world's first atomic bomb." ...

Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Paul Tibbets, who etched his mother's name — Enola Gay — into history on the nose of the B-29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, died Thursday after six ...

The Enquirer archives show the local reactions to the end of World War II. Paul Tibbets, the “Enola Gay” pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb, had been a pre-med student at the University of ...

On June 26, 1940, young pilot Lt. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., was summoned to aid Col. Samuel R. Hopkins, whose wife and son were in a terrible automobile accident near Elmira. Mrs. Anne Hopkins, and her 17 ...