Paul Tibbets (Pilot) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. is Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay when he dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in the war, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets joined the US Army in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he conducted an anti-submarine patrol across the Atlantic. In February 1942, he became the commander of the 340 Bomber Squadron of the 97 Bomber Group, equipping the Boeing B-17. In July 1942, the 97 became the first heavy bombing group to deploy as part of the Eighth Air Force, and Tibbets became the group's deputy commander. The British flew the lead aircraft in the first US heavy bomber mission against occupied Europe on August 17, 1942, and the first US raid with more than 100 bombers on Europe on October 9, 1942

Birth name	Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
Born	February 23, 1915, Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
Died	November 1, 2007, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Service/branch	United States Army Air Forces, This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Air Force website of agency test->
Years of service	1937–1966
Rank	Brigadier general
Commands held	340th Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group, 308th Bombardment Wing, 6th Air Division
Battles/wars	World War II, Operation Torch, Combined Bomber Offensive, Air raids on Japan, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Other work	Charter Pilot and President of Executive Jet Aviation

About Paul Tibbets

Pilot Paul Tibbets was born in Quincy, Illinois, United States on February 23, 1915. He dies at the age of 92, on November 1, 2007.

Pilot of the US Air Force who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Little Boy, the bomb that demolished the city, killed 135,000 people, including civilians and American POWs.

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Paul Tibbets before becoming famous

Paul Tibbets was born in the Zodiac sign Pisces (The Fish), and 1915 is also the year of Rabbit (兔) in the Chinese Zodiac.

With the goal of becoming an abdominal surgeon, he enrolled at the University of Cincinnati.

Achievement of Paul Tibbets

The Enola Gay, his plane, was the first to drop the first of two atomic bombs on Japan.

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Paul Tibbets's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Following his divorce with Lucy Wingate, he married Andrea Quattrehomm. James, Gene, and Paul III Tibbets were his three sons.

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He was a contemporary of ^AstronautGus Grissom, an American astronaut.

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Paul Tibbets (Pilot) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

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