Paul Tibbets

Biography

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Known For

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Hiroshima

The Atomic Cafe

A Compassionate Spy

Death in Focus

General Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima

All Movies (6)

• A Compassionate Spy2022 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hiroshima2005 · as Self - Pilot, Enola Gay
• Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• General Paul Tibbets: Reflections on Hiroshima1989
• Death in Focus1989 · as Pilot & aircraft commander
• The Atomic Cafe1982 · as Self (archive footage)