This is the story of the man who was entrusted to fly the plane that would drop the first atomic bomb in war. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...
Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the final days of World War II, died yesterday at his home ...