<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
who was the first person to drop the atomic bomb
who was the first person to drop the atomic bomb
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.