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
bob journal keeping lewis remember robert script taylor writers wrote
The movie 'Above and Beyond' starring Robert Taylor didn't get anything right, ... 'Above and Beyond' script writers put the words, 'Oh my God, what have we done?' into my mouth,' Tibbets said. 'I never said that. Bob Lewis (the copilot) wrote 'my God' in his journal he was keeping on the flight. That's how I remember it, anyway.'
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.
climb fly
I wanted to climb in and fly it,
sleep night proud
I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.
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.