Who piloted the plane that dropped the bomb on hiroshima?
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Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. Paul Tibbets
Paul Tibbets
hiroshima pilot
Paul Tibbets Charles Sweeney Claude Eatherly Robert A. Lewis Enola Gay Charles Donald Albury Hubert Schiffer Yoshio Yoshida (pilot) Above and Beyond (1952 film) Leonard Cheshire
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 ... 35—the Enola Gay departed North Field for 
<b>Hiroshima</b>, Japan, with Tibbets at the controls. Tinian was approximately 2,000&nbsp;... Atomic Bombing of <b>Hiroshima</b> &middot; Atomic Bombing 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&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 pilot of a weather 
reconnaissance aircraft Straight Flush that supported the dropping of the atomic 
bomb on Hiroshima, ... William Bradford Huie, in The <b>Hiroshima Pilot</b>, cast doubt 
on the Eatherly&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 ... difference – 
Lewis was the co-<b>pilot</b> of the Enola Gay when it dropped Little Boy on <b>Hiroshima</b>. 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. ... The bomb, code-named &quot;
Little Boy&quot;, was targeted at the city of <b>Hiroshima</b>, Japan, and caused the&nbsp;... Charles Donald Albury (October 12, 1920 – May 23, 2009) was an American 
military aviator who participated in both atomic bombings of <b>Hiroshima</b> and 
Nagasaki. ... On August 6, 1945, Albury witnessed the first atomic bombing of 
<b>Hiroshima</b> as <b>pilot</b> of the instrument observation plane, The Great Artiste, which 
accompanied&nbsp;... Father Hubert F. Schiffer, S.J. was a German Jesuit who survived the atomic 
bomb &quot;Little Boy&quot; dropped 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;... Yoshio Yoshida was a Japanese army aviator known for achieving flying ace 
status against ... In 1921, Yoshida was born in <b>Hiroshima</b>, the capital of 
<b>Hiroshima</b> Prefecture. In 1939, he enrolled as an officer candidate in the 55th 
class of the&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 dropped the atomic bomb on <b>Hiroshima</b> in
&nbsp;... Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO &amp; Two Bars, DFC (7 
September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) 
<b>pilot</b> and group captain during the Second World War, and a philanthropist. 
Among the honours Cheshire received as a <b>pilot</b> was the Victoria Cross, the&nbsp;...
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
Paul Tibbets