It's been 80 years since then-Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. flew an airplane called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, dropping an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" and ushering in the age of nuclear ...

Roughly two hours before the United States bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets announced to his crew of the Enola Gay that they were carrying the "world's first atomic bomb." ...

Retired Brigadier Gen. Paul Warfield Tibbets IV will be the featured speaker at the November Ascension GOP Roundtable, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The granddaughter of a World War II pilot expressed her shock that photos of the “Enola Gay” — the plane used to drop an atomic bomb on Japan — were targeted in the Trump ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in The Charlotte Observer on Aug. 6, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, is the 80th anniversary.

Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with ...

JIM CARRIER Special to The Gazette Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 Updated Aug 5, 2025 NAGASAKI, Japan • Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian ...

Because Nevada has 300 sunny days a year and the U.S. government owns 87% of our state’s sparsely populated state, yet in the late 1930s and early 40s, a number of airfields were constructed by then ...