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Paul Tibbets

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Paul Tibbets
Tibbets waving from the Enola Gay to photographers before taking off on the mission to drop the atmoic bomb on Hiroshima.[1][2]

Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a Brigadier general for the United States Air Force from 1937 to 1966. Paul is famous for dropping the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the B-29 Superfortress called Enola Gay. He was born in Quincy, Illinois.

Tibbets died of heart failure after suffering a small stroke in Columbus, Ohio, aged 92.[3] His remains were cremated where his ashes were later scattered across the English Channel...

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  1. Cite error: The named reference grantfact was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  2. "Col. Tibbets aboard the Enola Gay". Atomic Archive. Archived from the original on 4 February 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  3. "Man Who Dropped Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Dies at 92". Fox News. Retrieved 19 June 2009.

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