Paul Tibbets was assigned the task of training a crew capable of flying a modified B29 and targeting a Japanese city or installation .
Luther Calvin Tibbets (and his wife Eliza Tibbets) grew the first Washington Navel Oranges in Riverside, CA in 1871 are are credited for starting the California citrius industry.
Enola gay crew Colonel Paul Tibbets Captain Robert Lewis Captain Theodore Van Kirk Major Thomas Ferebee Lieutenant Jacob Beser Sergeant Joseph Stiborik Private Richard Nelson Staff Sergeant Wyatt Duzenbury Staff Sergeant Robert Caron Captain Deke Parson 2nd Lieutenant Morris Jeppson
* Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr.- pilot * Capt. Robert Lewis - copilot * Maj. Thomas Ferebee - bombardier * Capt. Theodore Van Kirk - navigator * Lt. Jacob Beser - radar countermeasures * Capt. William "Deak" Parsons - weaponeer * 2nd Lt. Maurice Jeppson - assistant weaponeer * Sgt. Joe Stiborik - radar * Staff Sgt. George Caron - tail gunner * Sgt. Robert Shumard - asst. flight engineer * Pfc. Richard Nelson - radio * Tech Sgt. Wayne Duzenberry - flight engineer
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Enola Gay was named after the mother of the Hiroshima pilot Lieut Col. Paul Tibbets (Enola Gay Haggard)
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Col. Paul Tibbets and Major Charles Sweeney.
I believe it was Col Paul Tibbets. I will have to check and verify that.
Col Paul Tibbets of the 509th Composite Bombardment Group based on Tinian island in the Pacific. The name of the modified B-29 Aircraft was the Enola Gay. For historical record there was not one, but two bombs dropped. Tibbets flew the first mission and dropped I think "Fat Boy" on Hiroshima and another pilot flew a second mission that dropped Little Man on Nagasaki.
The 3-letter name given to a mountain pass is "Col."
Paul Tibbets's birth name is Jr., Paul Warfield Tibbets.
Eliza Tibbets was born in 1823.
Eliza Tibbets died in 1898.
The plane Enola Gay' - was named after Enola Gay Tibbets- the mother of the pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets, who flew the mission to drop the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Paul Tibbets was born on February 23, 1915.
Paul Tibbets was born on February 23, 1915.
Luther C. Tibbets was born in 1820.