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Only Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot, and two naval officers who'd armed the bomb knew what terrible "top secret" power lay inside the overripe payload shackled securely in the plane's bomb bay.

He spent his lifetime defending the mission in which the atomic bomb was first used. Col. Paul W. Tibbets stands beside the B-29 Superfortress bomber the Enola Gay in 1945 in an unknown location.

An illustration of the moments following the ‘Enola Gay’’s deployment of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, ...

As was his wont on long flights, Col. Paul Tibbets, piloting a B-29, puffed on his pipe as, 80 years ago Wednesday, he transported humanity from one geopolitical era to another. His radio operator was ...

Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the final days of World War II, died yesterday at his home ...

Eighty years ago, my father Irvng Winkler, commanding an Army Signal Corps unit, was on the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. This was the base from which Lieutenant Colonel Paul ...

In the Museum of Veterans and Military History, there are several signed documents including letters to soldiers with the signatures of presidents and military officers. One important one is the ...

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 ...