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 ...

Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio after suffering a number of health problems. He was 92.

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 ...

Through the years, many influential people have hailed from the Gem City, but maybe the Quincyan that had the greatest impact on world events was Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. He commanded the crew of the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Paul Tibbets is a General for the U.S. Air Force with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 National Press Club Speech. Most common tags: ...

Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets IV shared stories about his grandfather's military service Friday during the Ascension Veterans Day program in Gonzales. Tibbets' grandfather, Col. Paul ...

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, ...

THE ASSOCIATED RPESS Oct 1, 2020 Oct 1, 2020 0 Col. Paul W. Tibbets stands beside the B-29 Superfortress bomber, the Enola Gay, in 1945 in an unknown location. By June 1942, Martin-Nebraska had begun ...

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 ...

For better or worse, the Enola Gay is a hugely important part of American military history. Unfortunately, that history may now be inadvertently erased thanks to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, ...