The B-29 super fortress "Enola Gay" blasted down the crushed coral runway carved through the battle-scarred jungle of the Pacific Island of Tinian. The screaming of its four powerful engines shattered ...

Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92 and insisted for six decades after the war that he had no regrets about the ...

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., the Army Air Forces pilot whose bombing run over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 introduced nuclear war, died Thursday at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He was 92. Tibbets never ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 92 and insisted almost to his dying day that he had no ...

For many Americans, J. Robert Oppenheimer was the genius who created the atomic bomb and later agonized about it. By contrast, Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. was the pilot who dropped the bomb and famously ...

On August 6, 1945, the B-29 Superfortress bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first atomic-bomb attack and destroyed the city, killing 80,000 people instantly. Toward the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Paul Tibbets Jr., who flew the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died Thursday in his Columbus, Ohio, home at age 92. Tibbets suffered ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

Tibbets: ‘If anybody gives you a hard time,’ said President Harry Truman, ‘refer them to me’ Tibbets: ‘If anybody gives you a hard time,’ said President Harry Truman, ‘refer them to me’ ...

For more than 60 years, he endured the protesters and the second-guessers who criticized his role in one of the pivotal events in world history. But there was never a doubt in Paul Tibbets' mind that ...