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Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
2007 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and Pilot of B-29 “Enola Gay” over Hiroshima, dies (b. 1916). 2006 – Emirates Airline cancels its order for 10 Airbus A340-600HGW. 2004 – Pan American Airways, or Pan Am III, turned down operations once again, but gave operations to Boston-Maine Airways.
Paul Warfield Tibbets IV (born 21 November 1966) is a former United States Air Force brigadier general. He is the grandson of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. , the pilot of the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
The Enola Gay (/ ə ˈ n oʊ l ə /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare.
Like Tibbets, Ferebee never expressed regret for his role in the bombing, saying "it was a job that had to be done." [2] He died at his home in Windermere, Florida, at the age of 81. [3] He was survived by his wife, Mary Ann Ferebee, who donated his collection of military documents and objects to the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. [4]
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