Many people don’t recognize the name Paul Tibbets and are likely unaware of the pivotal role he once played in world events. At the age of 29, he began assembling a secret team of 1,800 American ...

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 ...

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.

Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, has died at age 92. On Aug. 6, 1945, Tibbets' B-29 dropped the nearly five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Paul W. Tibbets, who etched his mother's name, Enola Gay, into history on the nose of the B-29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) --Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92 and insisted for six decades after the war that he had no ...

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 ...

Early in the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay,” piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., took off from Tinian island in the Pacific Ocean, loaded with the world’s ...

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.

Fifty-five years ago on August 6, Paul Tibbets dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and then returned to a quiet life in Ohio. Two years ago, Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene also returned to his ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

Just twenty-one days after a successful, top-secret atomic bomb test in New Mexico shook seismograph instruments with force, a 9,700-pound uranium nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug.