Paul Tibbets
Paul Tibbets
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the pilot who flew the Enola Gaywhen it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima...
ProfessionPilot
Date of Birth23 February 1915
CityQuincy, IL
following orders uniform wearing
I am an airman, a pilot. In 1945, I was wearing the uniform of the U.S. following the orders of our commander-in-chief.
atoms
I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.
came looking saw taxi
When I came in here and saw this thing, the symbols, looking the way it looked, ... I wanted to get right in there and taxi it out.