Enola Gay Pilot Dies at 92
Paul Warfield Tibbits Jr., the man who flew the Enola Gay to drop the "Little Boy" A-bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, has died at 92 in Columbus, Ohio. Tibbits, who named his B-29 after his mother, requested that his grave be unmarked to thwart potential protesters.
Paul Warfield Tibbits Jr., the man who flew the Enola Gay to drop the “Little Boy” A-bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, has died at 92 in Columbus, Ohio. Tibbits, who named his B-29 after his mother, requested that his grave be unmarked to thwart potential protesters.
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The five-ton “Little Boy” bomb was dropped on the morning of 6 August 1945, killing about 140,000 Japanese, with many of them dying later.
On the 60th anniversary of the bombing, the three surviving crew members of the Enola Gay – named after Tibbet’s mother – said they had “no regrets”.
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