Relate Search of (ENOLA GAY CREW (PAUL W. More Information (ENOLA GAY CREW (PAUL W. UACC Registered Dealer, #RD110 and member of the Manuscript Society! Fast Worldwide shipping! DOCUMENT 290079ĭetails Features A memorable & special gift! A unique centerpiece for the home or office! Only 100% Authentic Autographs & Manuscripts – Certificate of Authenticity Provided. For more information contact HistoryForSale. He retired a brigadier general in 1966 and worked in commercial aviation until 1986. Tibbets was a colonel when Hiroshima was destroyed and became a technical adviser on the United States’ nuclear bomb tests. A second A-bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later, and Japan surrendered on August 15. The blast, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, destroyed a four square-mile area, and killing an estimated 70,000 people. Tibbets (1915-2007, born in Quincy, Illinois) was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, named after Tibbets’ mother, that dropped the first atomic bomb (nicknamed Little Boy) on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. Description ATOMIC BOMB: PAUL TIBBETS Shown posed in uniform in front of the Enola Gay Photograph signed: Paul Tibbets, Pilot/6 Aug.