Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 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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Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. 23 February 1915 Quincy, Illinois United States
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1 November 2007 (aged 92) Columbus, OH
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