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Birthday: Feb 23, 1915
Place of Birth: Quincy, Illinois, U.S.

Paul Tibbets

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie Self (archive footage) 1995
The Atomic Cafe Self (archive footage) 1982
Death in Focus Pilot & aircraft commander 1989
A Compassionate Spy Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2022
General Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima 1989
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