Tibbets, Paul

Tibbets, Paul W. 1946. How to drop an atom bomb. Sat. Even. Post. June 8. 

There on the same day the Target Committee was meeting, this time with Paul Tibbets as well as Tolman and Parsons on hand. Much of the discussion concerned Tibbets training program for the 509th Composite Group. He had sent his best crews to Cuba for six weeks to give them radar... 

It was all impersonal, Paul Tibbets would come to say. It was not impersonal for Robert Lewis. If I live a hundred years, he wrote in his journal, Fll never quite get these few minutes out of my mind. Nor would the people of Hiroshima. 

Hiroshima prestrike briefing on Tinian. L. to r., first row, Joseph Buscher, unknown second row, Norman Ramsey, Paul Tibbets third row, Thomas Ferrell, Adm. Parnell, Deke Parsons, Luis Alvarez fourth row, left of Parsons, Charles Sweeney, right of Parsons, Thomas Ferebee, right of Alvarez, Theodore Van Kirk Harold Agnew. 

Paul W. Tibbets, How to Drop an Atom Bomb, Saturday Evening Post 218 (June 8, 1946), p. 136. 

Paul Tibbets The commander of the US Army s 509th Composite Group, Tibbets elected to fly the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Tibbets named the B-29 bomber the... 

ENOLA GAY. On 6 August 1945, the United States became the first nation to use a nuclear weapon in combat when the Little Boy bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan. U.S. Army Air Corps colonel Paul W. Tibbets commanded and flew the B-29 aircraft that carried this bomb. As was typical in the Army Air Corps, the aircraft commander had the privilege of naming the aircraft, and Tibbets... 

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