Paul Tibbets
February 23, 1915 (109 years old) in Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
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.
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- 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)