Who was the first pilot dropped the atom bomb in Heroshima & is he still alive?
2006-07-03 01:21:16 · 5 answers · asked by hasan 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Paul Warfield Tibbets he is my next door Neighbors Grandpa!
2006-07-03 01:26:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (born February 23, 1915) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force and the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb.
2006-07-03 01:24:27 · answer #2 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (born 23 February 1915 in Quincy, Illinois) was the pilot of the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb (nicknamed "Little Boy") on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
Tibbets was commander of the composite group chosen for the mission and he elected to fly the atomic attack himself. He selected an aeroplane from his group and renamed it "Enola Gay", after his mother Enola Gay Tibbets (1893–1983), who in turn had been named after the heroine of a novel.
In 1959 Tibbets was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, and he retired from the US Airforce on 31 August 1966. He is still alive and has recently stated that he would do it all over again, if he was placed in the same circumstances once more.
2006-07-03 02:03:24 · answer #3 · answered by Sean F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul Tibbets and yes, he is still alive.
2006-07-08 23:24:09 · answer #4 · answered by Ken W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry buddy, tried to find out but in vain.
2006-07-03 01:48:58 · answer #5 · answered by Halle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋