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 ...

On August 6, 1945, a seismic event occurred that would forever change the course of history and warfare. At the controls of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, was Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.

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.

It's been 80 years since then-Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. flew an airplane called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, dropping an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" and ushering in the age of nuclear ...

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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Paul Tibbets is a General for the U.S. Air Force with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 National Press Club Speech. Most common tags: ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago, my father Irvng Winkler, commanding an Army Signal Corps unit, was on the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. This was the base from which Lieutenant Colonel Paul ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - When Paul Tibbets enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps, nuclear fission had not even been discovered, but it would fall upon him to unleash its staggering power in war for the first ...

It's been 80 years since then-Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. flew an airplane called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, dropping an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" and ushering in the age of nuclear ...