Paul Tibbets was born in 1915, the son of a World War I Army captain. Tibbets, who had led the first American strategic bombing mission against a European target in 1942, also dropped the bomb that ended World War II. The command pilot of the Boeing B-29 that dropped the bomb, named Enola Gay after the pilot’s mother, was 29-year-old Colonel Paul W. On August 6, 1945, a bomb burst above the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively bringing to an end almost 61Ž2 years of global warfare. Tibbets, Mid Coast Marketing, Columbus, Ohio, 1999, $21.95.
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