Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On June 26, 1940, young pilot Lt. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., was summoned to aid Col. Samuel R. Hopkins, whose wife and son were in a ...

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 ...

Just after 8.15am Japanese time, on August 6 1945, six miles above Hiroshima, a Boeing B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, who has died aged 92, carried out the world's first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

Phoenix Mercury head coach Nate Tibbets had some choice words for the officials after he was ejected in the third quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA Finals against the Las Vegas Aces on Friday night.

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 ...