¿Quièn es Paul Tibbets?

Question

Su nombre es recordado por un hecho de la historia, que para muchos marcò el inicio de modernidad?

Answer 1

Destacado piloto de aviación, a lo largo de su trayectoria profesional su trabajo fue reconocido con diversas condecoraciones. Tras concluir su estancia en Europa, donde conducía superbombarderos B-17, regresa a Estados Unidos. En su país natal se dedica a probar los B-29 y en 1944 le encomiendan la misión de dirigir la tripulación del "Crew 15" que más tarde sería a la responsable de lanzar la segunda bomba atómica sobre Nagasaki. El 6 de agosto de 1945 fue el encargado de pilotar el "Enola Gay", un superbombardero B-29 desde el que se proyectó la bomba atómica sobre Hiroshima.

Answer 2

Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (23 de Febrero de 1915, Quincy, Illinois) fue el piloto del Enola Gay, el avion que lanzó la bomba atómica sobre Hiroshima durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Tibbets es el hijo de Paul Warfield Tibbets y Enola Gay Tibbets (nacida Haggard).

Answer 3

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.

mas claro ni el agua , es el piloto que lanzo a little boy ( nombre que le dieron los gringos a la bomba ) sobre Hiroshima ..

Answer 4

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.

Tibbets was born in Quincy, Illinois and was the son of Paul Warfield Tibbets and Enola Gay Tibbets (née Haggard). On February 25, 1937, he enlisted as a flying cadet in the Army Air Corps at Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1938 and received his wings at Kelly Field, Texas. Tibbets was named commanding officer of the 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Heavy Bomb Group flying B-17 Flying Fortresses in March, 1942. Based at RAF Polebrook, he piloted the lead bomber on the first Eighth Air Force bombing mission in Europe on August 17, 1942 and later flew combat missions in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations until returning to the U.S. to test fly B-29 Superfortresses. In September 1944 he was selected to command the project at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, that became the 509th Composite Group, in connection with the Manhattan Project's Project Alberta.

On August 5, 1945 Colonel Paul Tibbets formally named B-29 serial number 44-86292 Enola Gay after his mother (she was named after the heroine, Enola Gay, of a novel her father had liked). On August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay departed Tinian Island in the Marianas with Tibbets at the controls at 2:45 a.m. for Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. local time.

The film Above and Beyond (1952) depicted the World War II events involving Tibbets, with Robert Taylor starring as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his first wife, Lucy.