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 ...

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.

Through the years, many influential people have hailed from the Gem City, but maybe the Quincyan that had the greatest impact on world events was Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. He commanded the crew of the ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – As the pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets wasn’t sure what to expect when he visited the place where ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Paul 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, Japan, died Thursday after six ...

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 ...

Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets IV shared stories about his grandfather's military service Friday during the Ascension Veterans Day program in Gonzales. Tibbets' grandfather, Col. Paul ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The granddaughter of a World War II pilot expressed her shock that photos of the “Enola Gay” — the plane used to drop an atomic bomb on Japan — were targeted in the Trump ...