- Born
- Died
- Birth namePaul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
- Nickname
- Nuke
- Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a career officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps and its successor the U.S. Air Force who rose to the rank of brigadier general. He is best known for commanding and piloting the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay when it dropped "Little Boy", the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War 2.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousesAndrea P. Quattrehomme(May 4, 1956 - November 1, 2007) (his death, 1 child)Lucy Frances Wingate(June 19, 1938 - 1955) (divorced, 2 children)
- He was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay", which dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
- The name of his B-29 "Enola Gay" was actually the name of Tibbets' mother.
- Children from first marriage = Paul III, Gene; child from second marriage = James.
- Died in his Columbus, Ohio, home at the age of ninety-two. He had suffered small strokes and heart failure in his final years and had been in hospice care. Tibbets laid down in his will that there should be no funeral service after his death and no headstone for fear this might lead to demonstrations at his grave. He wanted to ensure that his resting place could never be a pilgrimage site for opponents of the use of nuclear weapons. Tibbets asked to be cremated, and have his ashes dispersed into the waters of the English Channel.
- As a means of thwarting the actions of prospective anti-nuke protesters after his death, Tibbets requested that there be no funeral arrangements, and that he be buried in an unmarked grave site.
- When the bomb was dropped, everyone craned his neck to watch the enormous black cloud that rose over the city - an effect quite different from anything any of them had ever seen. Then they flew back to the Marianas, eating ham sandwiches as they went.
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