Paul Tibbets
Birthday: 1915-02-23 | Place of Birth: Quincy, Illinois, U.S.Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 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.
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
2005
Hiroshima
as Self - Pilot, Enola Gay
1989
Death in Focus
as Pilot & aircraft commander
1982
The Atomic Cafe
as Self (archive footage)
