Wwii, Paul Tibbetts, Usaf Officer is a photograph by Science Source which was uploaded on April 5th, 2016.
Wwii, Paul Tibbetts, Usaf Officer
Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico - Colonel Tibbetts poses in front of his B-29 Superfortress The Enola Gay. Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (February... more
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Wwii, Paul Tibbetts, Usaf Officer
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Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico - Colonel Tibbetts poses in front of his B-29 Superfortress "The Enola Gay". Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (February 23, 1915 - November 1, 2007), was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Tibbets enlisted in the United States Army in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. After flying 43 combat missions, he became the assistant for bomber operations on the staff of the Twelfth Air Force. He returned to the United States in February 1943 to help with the development of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. In September 1944, he was appointed the commander of the 509th Composite Group, which would conduct the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he participated in the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946, and was involved in the development of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet in the early 1950s. He commanded the 308th Bombardment Wing and 6th Air Division in the late 1950s, and was military attaché in India from 1964 to 1966. After leaving the Air Force in 1966, he worked for Executive Jet Aviation, serving as its president from 1976 until his retirement in 1987. He died in 2007 at the age of 92.
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