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Paul Tibbets, famed pilot of the Enola Gay, was a Brigadier General in the US Air Force.
The 'Enola Gay' was named in honor of Enola Gay Tibbets, his mother.
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There was not a captain of the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Colonel Paul Tibbets was the pilot who assumed command of the aircraft, he renamed the B-29 after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
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.