<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 pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb
who was the pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.