Hello Select your address All Hello, Sign in. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay departed Tinian Island in the Marianas with Tibbets at the controls at 2:45 a.m. Following his retirement from the ‘USAF,’ Tibbets served the air taxi company ‘Executive Jet Aviation.’ He became a member of the founding board of the company and eventually served as its president. Flight of the Enola Gay : Tibbets, Carl W.: Amazon.sg: Books. On August 5, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets formally named B-29 serial number 44-86292 Enola Gay after his mother she was named after the heroine, Enola, of a novel her father had liked. In the 1950s, he was involved in the development of the ‘Boeing B-47 Stratojet’ and also held the command of the ‘308th Bombardment Wing’ and the ‘6th Air Division.’ He served as a military attaché in India for a couple of years. During the war, Tibbets held the commands of the ‘340th Bombardment Squadron’ and the ‘509th Composite Group.’ He took part in ‘Operation Torch,’ the ‘Combined Bomber Offensive,’ air raids on Japan, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He had named the aircraft after his mother. piloted the Enola Gay, a B-29 he had christened for his mother, down the runway on Tinian Island for a six-hour. He is remembered for flying the first aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb, the ‘B-29 Superfortress’ known as “Enola Gay.” The aircraft had dropped the atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during the last stages of the Second World War. was an American Second World War veteran who served the ‘United States Air Force’ (USAF) as a brigadier general.
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