Twist when can I come get tidbits? I wanna squeeze him.
any time just bring enough money with you to ship your body back for when Enola and Porter and probably crazy Sheila all get ahold of you.
pssssstt that's 2 -B's and no d's lol
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 pilot who flew the
Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped
Little Boy, the first of two
atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima.
Tibbets enlisted in the
United States Army in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. After the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, he flew anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic. In February 1942, he became the commanding officer of the
340th Bombardment Squadron of the
97th Bombardment Group, which was equipped with the
Boeing B-17. In July 1942 the 97th became the first heavy bombardment group to be deployed as part of the
Eighth Air Force, and Tibbets became deputy group commander. He flew the lead plane in the first American daylight
heavy bomber mission against
Occupied Europe on 17 August 1942, and the first American raid of more than 100 bombers in Europe on 9 October 1942. Tibbets was chosen to fly Major General
Mark W. Clark and
Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Gibraltar. After flying 43 combat missions, he became the assistant for bomber operations on the staff of the
Twelfth Air Force.
Tibbets 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.