Who was the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima?
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Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. Paul Tibbets
Paul Tibbets
Who was the pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima?
Paul Tibbets Charles Sweeney Claude Eatherly Enola Gay Bockscar Above and Beyond (1952 film) Jacob Beser Charles Donald Albury Robert A. Lewis Hubert Schiffer
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier 
general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the <b>pilot</b> who flew the 
B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it 
<b>dropped</b> Little Boy, the first of two <b>atomic bombs</b> used in ... The <b>atomic bomb</b>, 
code-named &quot;Little Boy&quot;, was <b>dropped</b> over <b>Hiroshima</b> at&nbsp;... <b>Atomic Bombing</b> of <b>Hiroshima</b> &middot; <b>Atomic Bombing</b> of Nagasaki. Awards, Silver Star 
&middot; Air Medal. Charles W. Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an 
officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the <b>pilot</b> who 
flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man <b>atomic bomb</b> to ... In War&#39;s End, Sweeney 
defended the decision to <b>drop the atomic bomb</b> in&nbsp;... Claude Robert Eatherly (October 2, 1918 – July 1, 1978) was an officer in the 
U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, and the <b>pilot</b> of a weather 
reconnaissance aircraft Straight Flush that supported the <b>dropping</b> of the <b>atomic</b> 
<b>bomb on Hiroshima</b>, ... Eatherly was the <b>pilot</b> of Straight Flush, one of seven B-
29s of the 393d Bomb&nbsp;... The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay 
Tibbets, the mother of the <b>pilot</b>, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during 
the final stages of World War II, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis it became 
the first aircraft to <b>drop</b> an <b>atomic bomb</b>. ... The bomb, code-named &quot;Little Boy&quot;, 
was targeted at the city of <b>Hiroshima</b>,&nbsp;... Bockscar, sometimes called Bock&#39;s Car, is the name of the United States Army Air 
Forces B-29 ... The <b>bomb</b> bay doors and the fuselage section between the <b>bomb</b> 
bays were ... Main article: <b>Atomic</b> bombings of <b>Hiroshima</b> and Nagasaki ... The 
failure to <b>drop</b> the Fat Man at the precise <b>bomb</b> aim point caused the <b>atomic</b> blast 
to&nbsp;... Above and Beyond is a 1952 American World War II film about Lt. Col. Paul W. 
Tibbets Jr., the <b>pilot</b> of the aircraft that <b>dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima</b> in
&nbsp;... Jacob Beser (May 15, 1921 – June 16, 1992) was a lieutenant in the United 
States Army Air Forces who served during World War II. Beser was the radar 
specialist aboard the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945, when it <b>dropped</b> the Little 
Boy <b>atomic bomb on Hiroshima</b>. ... The thirteen-hour mission to <b>Hiroshima</b> under 
the command of famous <b>pilot</b>&nbsp;... Charles Donald Albury (October 12, 1920 – May 23, 2009) was an American 
military aviator ... Albury measured the levels of radioactivity and magnitude of 
the <b>atomic bomb</b> from his plane. ... On August 9, 1945, just three days after the 
bombing of <b>Hiroshima</b>, Sweeney&#39;s crew, with Albury as co-<b>pilot</b>, took off in the B-
29&nbsp;... Robert Alvin Lewis (October 18, 1917 – June 18, 1983) was a United States Army 
Air Forces officer serving in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. He was the 
co-<b>pilot</b> of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber which <b>dropped the</b> 
<b>atomic bomb</b> Little Boy on the Japanese city of <b>Hiroshima</b> on 6 August 1945. Father Hubert F. Schiffer, S.J. was a German Jesuit who survived the <b>atomic</b> 
<b>bomb</b> &quot;Little Boy&quot; <b>dropped</b> on <b>Hiroshima</b>. ... Schiffer met both the <b>pilot</b> and co-<b>pilot</b> 
of the B-29 that bombed <b>Hiroshima</b>, the Enola Gay. In New York City in 1951,&nbsp;...
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
Paul Tibbets