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Paul Tibbets

Paul Tibbets
  • Name: Paul Tibbets
  • Birthday: 1915-02-23
  • Also known as: Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
  • Place of birth: Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
  • Popularity: 0.001
Biography: 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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Title Release date
A Compassionate Spy   as  Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2022-08-31
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie   as  Self (archive footage) 1995-09-29
General Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima 1989-09-12
Death in Focus   as  Pilot & aircraft commander 1989-01-02
The Atomic Cafe   as  Self (archive footage) 1982-03-17