Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was born in Quincy, Illinois, on 23 February 1915, the son of Paul Warfield Tibbets Sr. and his wife, Enola Gay Tibbets. When...
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Paul Warfield Tibbets IV (born 21 November 1966) is a former United States Air Force brigadier general. He is the grandson of Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the...
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B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World...
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Kirtland Field for Tinian on 11 and 14 August, and Brigadier General Paul Tibbets was ordered by General Curtis LeMay to return to Kirtland to collect...
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Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Pilot Paul Tibbets named the aircraft after his mother, Enola Gay Haggard Tibbets. His mother was said to have been named...
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December 1944, at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets. Tibbets was assigned to organize and command a combat group to develop the...
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board of directors included US Air Force generals Curtis E. LeMay and Paul Tibbets, Washington lawyer and former military pilot Bruce Sundlun, and entertainers...
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Andrew W. Tibbets (c.1830–1898) American Union soldier, and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Tibbets (born ?), American media executive Eliza Tibbets (1823–1898)...
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recruited by Colonel Paul Tibbets to be part of the 509th Composite Group which was formed to drop the atomic bomb. Like Tibbets, Ferebee remained in...
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Priestley, Saburo Sakai, Albert Speer, James Stewart, Charles Sweeney, Paul Tibbets, Walter Warlimont, Takeo Yoshikawa and historian Stephen Ambrose. In...
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with Tibbets and Ferebee in the 509th Composite Group at Wendover Field, Utah, in late 1944. The group flew the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, with Tibbets as...
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Selected to be part of the 509th Composite Group commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, he was named commander of the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron on 6 January...
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Curtis E. LeMay Christopher Olsen as Paul Tibbets Jr. (son) (as Christie Olsen) Sidney and Ernest Sittig as Baby Tibbets (son) The film was suggested by screenwriter...
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tons of incendiary bombs on Japanese cities and killed 80,000 people. Paul Tibbets, pilot of the lead plane in the planned atomic bomb run, reported to...
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Taylor starred in the film Above and Beyond, a biopic of Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets. The two men met and found that they had much in common. Both had considered...
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Stockdale Oliver Stone Bruce Sundlun Charles Sweeney Hugh Thompson Jr. Paul Tibbets Witold Urbanowicz Regis F. A. Urschler Patrick M. Walsh Joshua L. Wheeler...
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while LeMay was undergoing B-29 familiarization with (then-Colonel) Paul Tibbets' 509th Composite Group. Despite his uncompromising attitude regarding...
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bomber itself was chosen by its pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who named it after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (1893–1983), who had been named after the heroine...
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Bushnell Stout, inventor Michael Swango, serial killer and former physician Paul Tibbets, pilot who flew the Enola Gay Augustus Tolton first recognized African-American...
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Hiroshima from a special B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay, flown by Col. Paul Tibbets. It was the first use of atomic weapons in combat. 70,000 were killed...
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Kashiwazaki, and Koriyama, all flown by 1st Lt. Ray and crew C-14. Colonel Paul Tibbets had chosen Necessary Evil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, to...
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just as long and was dangerous as well, as the bomb was live. Colonel Paul Tibbets and Sweeney therefore elected to have Bockscar continue the mission....
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Medal of Honor since Vietnam War John O. Miner, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Paul Tibbets, pilot of B-29 Enola Gay that dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan;...
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was dangerous as well, as the bomb was live. Group Commander Colonel Paul Tibbets and Sweeney therefore elected to have Bockscar continue the mission....
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character Major Joe Cobb was inspired by Colonel Paul Tibbets, who had flown B-17s with Colonel Armstrong. Tibbets was initially approved as the film's technical...
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entertainer (b. 1933) John Woodruff, athlete (b. 1915) November 1 – Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay (b. 1915) November 2 – The Fabulous Moolah, professional...
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Roberts Otakar Batlička Owen Garriott Palden Thondup Namgyal Paul Flaherty Paul Horowitz Paul Tibbets Percy Jones Pertti Kärkkäinen Phil Karn Qaboos bin Said...
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Jenkins Michael Gould as Judge Clark Drew Jacoby as Loie Fuller Paul Albertson as Paul Tibbets It was announced in February 2017 that Marjane Satrapi would...
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1943 raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploiești, chose Colonel Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a...
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time), the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, flown by Paul Tibbets (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007), dropped the nuclear weapon "Little...
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