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Tibbets graduated from Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois and later attended the University of Florida in Gainesville and was an initiated member of the Epsilon Zeta Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity in 1934.
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Paul Tibbets personally selected the Enola Gay from the assembly line.
His grandson Colonel Paul W. Tibbets IV, USAF, ( a 1989 graduate of the US Air Force Academy ) was also commander of the 393rd Bomb Squadron at Whiteman AFB, Missouri, from 2005 – 2007 and flew the B-2 Spirit.
He was crucial in the introduction of the seedless Navel Orange to California agriculture, by mailing two trees from Bahia, Brazil in the Department of Agriculture collection to farmer and friend Eliza Tibbets in Riverside County, Southern California.
* August 6, 1945 – An atomic bomb, Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay, flown by Col. Paul Tibbets.
Tibbets and Western
While there is some debate as to who Vasco da Gama's navigator was – the result of a lack of clarity in his captain's log and several competing accounts written by contemporary Portuguese scholars – according to Tibbets, the tale of ibn Majid leading Vasco da Gama is popularized largely as a result of the ascendancy of the Western narrative of world history, and is not historically accurate.
Tibbets and Illinois
Tibbets was born in Quincy, Illinois, the son of Paul Warfield Tibbets, Sr., and Enola Gay ( née Haggard ) Tibbets.
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Tibbets and the " sanitary engineer " laughed about it later.
Col. Tibbets followed in his B-29 aircraft, Enola Gay an hour later, accompanied by two other B-29s which would observe the drop.
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The 509th Composite Group was duly activated on 17 December 1944 at Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, under the command of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets.
G. R Tibbets, a historian who commented the story written by Mas ' udi thought that Fanjab ( in Mas ' udi's book ) was Pahang.
Major Gen. Uzal Girard Ent, who had led the August, 1943, raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploesti, chose Col. Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a combat force to deliver a new type of explosive device that is so powerful, its full potential was unknown.
Tibbets did so, and was the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that delivered the first atomic bomb ( Little Boy ) on Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945.
Theodore " Dutch " Van Kirk, also a native of Northumberland, who was among the men hand-selected by Tibbets to accomplish the mission.
Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. ( February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007 ) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare.
Tibbets was named commanding officer of the 340th Bombardment Squadron, 97th Bomb Group of the U. S. Army Air Forces, flying B-17 Flying Fortresses in March 1942.
Upon completion of his combat tour, Tibbets was assigned as assistant for bomber operations to Col. Lauris Norstad, Assistant Chief of Staff of Operations ( A-3 ) of the Twelfth Air Force, a position he held until returning to the U. S. to test fly B-29 Superfortresses.
" By reputation ", Tibbets was " the best flier in the Army Air Force ".
One of those who confirmed this reputation was then-General Dwight D. Eisenhower, for whom Tibbets served as a personal pilot at times during the war.
After a year of development testing of the B-29, Tibbets was assigned in March 1944 to the 17th Bombardment Operational Training Wing ( Very Heavy ), a B-29 training unit, as director of operations under Brig.
Initially, Tibbets was unfamiliar with even the concept of an atomic bomb, and was quoted in a 1946 article in The New Yorker saying, " I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.
Tibbets was also portrayed in the films Day One and The Beginning or the End.
Tibbets was interviewed extensively by Mike Harden of the Columbus Dispatch, and profiles appeared in the newspaper on anniversaries of the first dropping of an atomic bomb.
Tibbets ' marriage to the former Lucy Wingate ended in divorce in 1955 ; his second wife was a French woman named Andrea Quattrehomme.
During the 1960s, Tibbets was named military attaché in India, but this posting was rescinded after protests in India regarding Tibbets ' role in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.
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* 1915 – Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General and pilot of B-29 " Enola Gay " over Hiroshima ( d. 2007 )
* February 23 – Paul Tibbets, American WWII bomber pilot of the Enola Gay ) ( d. 2007 )
* August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California orange industry ( d. 1898 )
The unincorporated communities of Millard and Tibbets are located in the town.
After graduation, he worked for Reginald Tibbets, a prominent amateur radio operator who operated a business supplying radiation detectors to the government.
Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr.
After his undergraduate work, Tibbets had planned on becoming an abdominal surgeon.
On February 25, 1937, Tibbets enlisted as a flying cadet in the U. S. Army Air Corps at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
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Although he still didn't speak to anyone, he grew fond of saying, `` The future lies in Asia '', when the opportunity arose, and when he graduated from high school his parents sent him to New York to give him a foundation, they said, for his life in Asian studies.
In 1826 Johnston graduated eighth of 41 cadets in his class from West Point with a commission as a brevet second lieutenant in the 2nd U. S. Infantry.
In the following year he became provisional Principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas ( from which he had just graduated ), and in 1903 his appointment was made permanent.
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