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Paul Tibbets

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.

Known For

The Atomic Cafe
The Atomic Cafe
Death in Focus
Death in Focus
General Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima
General Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima

Filmography

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