Paul Tibbets
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1915-02-23
- Fallecimiento:
- 2007-11-01
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
Biografía
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.
