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	Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" Signed by the Pilot, Gen. Paul W. Tibbets
		The Enola Gay, piloted by then Col. Tibbets was solely responsible for the organization, training, and command of the world's first nuclear strike force.
		On the morning of August 6, 1945, Col. Tibbets flew the Enola Gay (named after his mother) into the future by dropping the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
		The model is hand autographed by Gen. Paul Tibbets and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.
	www.wondersnevercease.com /things_unique/sigmodel/a2072b2pt.html (211 words)

	Paul Tibbets - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tibbets is the son of Paul Warfield Tibbets and Enola Gay Tibbetts (née Hazard).
		On August 5, 1945 Colonel Paul Tibbets formally named the B-29 Aircraft 44-86292 Enola Gay after his mother (she was named after the heroine, Enola Gay, of a novel her father had liked).
		Paul Tibbets, IV, as of 2005 is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, flying a B-2 Spirit for the 509th Bomb Wing, the same unit his grandfather served.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Paul_Tibbets (253 words)

	Paul Tibbets
		Tibbets requisitioned 15 new B29 Stratofortress and arranged for them to be adapted for the operation.
		Paul Tibbets: Well, we got going down the runway at right about 2.15am and we took off, we met our rendezvous guys, we made our flight up to what we call the initial point, that would be a geographic position that you could not mistake.
		Paul Tibbets: The airplane has a bomb sight connected to the autopilot and the bombardier puts figures in there for where he wants to be when he drops the weapon, and that's transmitted to the airplane.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWtibbets.htm (2736 words)

	Paul Tibbets
		On February 25, 1937, Paul enlisted as a flying cadet in the Army Air Corps at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
		On August 5, 1945 Colonel Paul Tibbets formally named the B-29 Aircraft 44-86292 Enola Gay after his mother (she was named after the heroine, Enola Gay, of a novel her father had liked).
		Paul Tibbets retired from the U.S. Air Force on August 31, 1966.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Paul_Tibbets.html (114 words)

	Paul Tibbets - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Tibbets is the son of Paul Warfield Tibbets and Enola Gay Tibbets (née Haggard).
		Paul Tibbets, IV, as of 2005 is a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, flying a B-2 Spirit for the 509th Bomb Wing, the same unit in which his grandfather served.
		Tibbets has been interviewed extensively by Mike Harden of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, and profiles have appeared in the newspaper on anniversaries of the first dropping of an atomic bomb.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/a/u/Paul_Tibbets_0167.html (344 words)

	An interview by Studs Terkel with Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 that dropped the first atom bomb.
		Paul Tibbets: One day [in September 1944] I'm running a test on a B-29, I land, a man meets me. He says he just got a call from General Uzal Ent [commander of the second air force] at Colorado Springs, he wants me in his office the next morning at nine o'clock.
		Paul Tibbets: Well, I think the two bombs that we used [at Hiroshima and Nagasaki] had more power than all the bombs the air force had used during the war in Europe.
		Paul Tibbets: I had dropped enough practice bombs to realize that the charges would blow around 1,500 ft in the air, so I would have 40 to 42 seconds to turn 159 degrees.
	dalesdesigns.net /interview.htm (3766 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Tibbets called me two days later and said that in reading the book, he realized that he had told me things about his own life, and his own time in the war, that he had never told his own boys.
		Tibbets was telling me that he had been able to talk to me about things he had never told his own children.
		Tibbets and I told him that I was beginning to understand why the war had been so important to my father, but I still didn't have all the answers.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/memorialday_duty052401.htm (2077 words)

	Airport Journals
		Tibbets would live with the Crums, not far from the university, and get a further taste of the medical profession, since Dr. Crum operated two clinics that specialized in the treatment of venereal diseases, and was on the staff of a major Cincinnati hospital.
		Tibbets spent weekends working as an orderly in the hospital, and on Saturday nights, could often be found in the emergency room, helping to move people who were brought in from accidents.
		Tibbets was inclined toward flying the fast fighters, or pursuit planes, however, one of the company tactical officers at Randolph advised him otherwise, saying if he were to fly fighters, once he got through training he would be going into the GHQ (General Headquarters) Air Corps.
	www.airportjournals.com /Display.cfm?varID=0304003 (6431 words)

	Daniel Traister's Home Page--General Honors 215 READING
		Paul Tibbets -- the pilot of the Enola Gay, the man who in 1945 flew the atomic bomb to Japan and dropped it on Hiroshima -- has lived in central Ohio for most of the years since World War II.
		I had asked Paul Tibbets what he thought the chances were that a mission like the one he commanded -- the mission to assemble a secret military unit, fly an atomic bomb halfway around the world and drop the bomb on an unsuspecting city in enemy territory -- could be pulled off today.
		But Paul Tibbets -- the man who flew the Enola Gay to Hiroshima -- said that if someone could turn back the clock that rules his body, he would be first in line to fight one more time for his country.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~traister/tibbets.html (4556 words)

	CNN - Chatpage - Books
		Tibbets interrupted me and he said, "Don't ever say that." And I said, "I'm not trying to insult my father, but it is true, you ended the war and no one even knew who he was." And Mr.
		Tibbets, men of 70 and 80 and women of 70 and 80 would come up to him with tears in their eyes and thank him for letting them live their lives and raise families.
		Tibbets when I was with him was that because of him, they got to come home and start families and live their lives.
	www.cnn.com /chat/transcripts/2000/6/6/greene/index.html (1544 words)

	Tibbets
		In November 1942, General Tibbets reverted to control of the Twelfth Air Force and, with the arrival of the remainder of the 97th Bomb Group, resumed normal combat operations in the Sahara Desert area.
		As these developments progressed, General Tibbets was further charged with the tactical training of bombardment organizations and their deployment into the combat theater of operations.
		In July 1962, General Tibbets was assigned to the Joint Staff, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as deputy director for operations, J-3.
	www.geocities.com /claude_hazel/tibbets.html (957 words)

	Paul W. Tibbets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Paul W. Tibbets is one of the most renowned bomber pilots of World War II.
		He was then selected, at age 29, to head the strike force of the atomic bomb project and was responsible for recruiting, organizing, and training personnel to drop the bombs that would lead to the end of the war with Japan.
		General Tibbets later served in staff program director positions and was a test pilot for the new B-47 swept-wing bomber.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/86bios/tibbet86.htm (495 words)

	The Visiting Nurse Association Air Show presents"Legend of Flight" Paul W. Tibbets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tibbets was solely responsible for the organization, training, and command of the world's first nuclear strike force.
		Paul Tibbets (Ret.) will be a featured speaker at the 2 P.M. event held at the Blake Library in Stuart.
		Tibbets announced to the crew that the the plane was carrying the world's first atomic bomb.
	www.stuartairshow.com /tibbets.html (1076 words)

	Paul Tibbets - Enola Gay pilot
		Paul Tibbets was born Feb. 23, 1915, son of Enola Gay and Paul Warfield Tibbets in Quincy, Illinois.
		Tibbets' group bivouacked in the "Columbia University district." Tinian was ideal; its 8,500 foot runways were among the longest in the world at the time.
		Tibbets ran into various confrontations, on issues from maintenance to training, stemming in part from the secrecy of the operations.
	www.acepilots.com /usaaf_tibbets.html (3107 words)

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		Paul Tibbets: Even though it was still theory, whatever those guys told me, that's what happened.
		Paul Tibbets: Well, we got going down the runway at right about 2:15 am and we took off, we met our rendezvous guys, we made our flight up to what we call the initial point, that would be a geographic position that you could not mistake.
		Paul Tibbets: The airplane has a bomb sight connected to t he autopilot and the bombardier puts figures in there for where he wants to be when he drops the weapon, and that's transmitted to the airplane.
	www.hemetmodelmasters.org /Bomb.htm (3959 words)

	Pilot Journal \| 60 Years After
		Paul went to work, and pretty soon, we were eating chicken every day instead of K-rations, which was a wonderful thing, especially with that gasoline garnish he put in there!
		At 2:15 a.m., on August 6, 1945, Paul Tibbets and Dutch Van Kirk took off from Tinian Island in the Pacific and were headed for Hiroshima, Japan.
		Tibbets reminded his crew to put on the heavy Polaroid glasses they had been given to protect their eyes from the blast.
	www.pilotjournal.com /content/2005/julyaug/60_years.html (1479 words)

	Biographies : BRIGADIER GENERAL PAUL W. TIBBETS JR. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In November 1942, General Tibbets reverted to control of the Twelfth Air Force and, with the arrival of the remainder of the 97th Bomb Group, resumed normal combat operations in the Sahara Desert area.
		In June 1950, General Tibbets was assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and from July 1950 until February 1952, was B-47 project officer at the Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kan., where the service test of the B-47 to determine its operational suitability took place.
		In July 1962, General Tibbets was assigned to the Joint Staff, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as deputy director for operations, J-3.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=7387 (867 words)

	ENOLA GAY \| The Man
		Paul requisitioned 15 new B-29s and specified they be stripped of turrets and armor plating except for the tail gunner position; that fuel-injected engines and new technology reversible-pitch propellers be installed; and the bomb bay re-configured to suspend, from a single point, ten thousand pounds.
		In 1946 Paul participated in the Bikini Bomb Tests as technical advisor to the commander of the air task force.
		When Paul Tibbets retired from the U.S. Air Force on August 31st, 1966, he had completed more than 29 and one-half years of service, but he was not through flying.
	www.theenolagay.com /man.html (1087 words)

	Still no regrets for frail Enola Gay pilot (Col. Paul Tibbets) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the Enola Gay, named for Tibbets’ mother, roared down the runway in the predawn of Aug. 6, Tibbets was carrying his favorite smoking pipe, a few cigars and a small cardboard pillbox holding a dozen cyanide capsules, in case the crew had to bail out over enemy territory.
		Tibbets, then 12, was hanging out at his father’s business, Tibbets and Smith Wholesale Confectioners, when a barnstorming pilot entered the offices and announced that he needed an assistant for a bombing mission.
		Tibbets volunteered against the wishes of his father, who already had determined that his son was going to be a doctor.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1458133/posts (4527 words)

	The National World War II Museum, New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tibbets takes the reader back to the early days of his career, the decisions he had to made in his professional life and career, leading up to the pivotal role he would play in one of world history's most fateful days.
		Paul Tibbets will be a speaker at the International Conference on WWII in New Orleans, October 5-9, 2005.
		Paul Tibbets was born in Quincy, Illinois, on February 23, 1915.
	www.ddaymuseum.org /education/bookcorner.html (468 words)

	Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay", Autographed by the pilot Paul Tibbets
		The Enola Gay, piloted by then Col. Tibbets was solely responsible for the organization, training, and command of the world's first nuclear strike force.
		On the morning of August 6, 1945, Col. Tibbets flew the Enola Gay (named after his mother) into the future by dropping the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
		The model is hand autographed by Gen. Paul Tibbets and includes a Certificate of Authenticity and photo.
	www.worldaircorps.com /sigmodel/a2072b2pt.html (244 words)

	Veterans Memorial Museum Welcomes Brigadier General Paul Tibbets on May 5, 2001
		Branson, MO -- Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the famed B-29 Enola Gay, will be available on Saturday, May 5, 2001, at the Veterans Memorial Museum to autograph photos and copies of the book, "Return of the Enola Gay".
		Brigadier General Tibbets will also be at the Welk Resort Center in the lobby of the Champagne Theater from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM on Friday, May 4, 2001.
		In September of 1944, Tibbets was assigned the task of recruiting, organizing, and training the personnel to drop the atomic bomb.
	www.bransontourismcenter.com /veteransmuseumarticle2.htm (431 words)

	General Paul Tibbets
		Paul was made the Executive Officer of the 97th Bombardment Group (Heavy).
		Paul had a great attachment to this aircraft and called it, “the Good Gremlin”.
		From the Island of Tinian, Paul Tibbets would go down in history as the first pilot to drop the Atomic Bomb —; the target, Hiroshima.
	www.mottsmilitarymuseum.org /tibbets.html (765 words)

	tibbetspicpage
		In September 1944, Paul was briefed on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the development of the atom bomb.
		In 1946 Paul participated in the Bikini Bomb Tests as technical advisor to the commander of the air task force.
		When Paul Tibbets retired from the U.S. Air Force on August 31st, 1966, he had completed more than 29 and one-half years of service, but he was not through flying.
	www.tangischools.org /schools/phs/think/man/tibpic.htm (1129 words)

	JS Online:
		Tibbets had practiced the bombing run with his crew for months to prepare for the top-secret mission.
		Though Tibbets is best known for piloting the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, he also was a decorated pilot who flew 25 B-17 missions in Europe and North Africa.
		But Tibbets knew one day he would be in a cockpit and decided to learn to fly after he finished military school.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/jul04/247168.asp (886 words)

	Armed Forces Museum - Western Military Academy Reunion - Gen Paul Tibbets
		Paul Tibbets signed this photo for the Museum at the reunion of the Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois from which he was a graduate.
		This photo was taken of then Col. Paul Tibbets with his B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" (The bomber was named after his Mother) that dropped the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan that helped to end WWII.
		Paul W. Tibbets being interviewed by News Channel 5 Reporter Cordell Whitlock at the WMA Reunion in Alton, Illinois
	firearsn.empowering.com /afm-wma_gen-tibbets.htm (213 words)

	Paul Tibbets (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Paul Tibbets was the pilot and commanding officer of the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the first Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945!
		This photograph, standing alongside the famous bomber, was taken shortly after he and the crew returned from that flight.
		We also have a 8" x 10" group photo of Tibbets and the rest of his crew, taken in front of the bomber just before leaving for Hiroshima...
	www.prints-n-ephemera.com /photographs/Tibbets.htm (123 words)

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