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Col. Tibbets
Paul Tibbets was assigned the task of training a crew capable of flying a modified B29 and targeting a Japanese city or installation .
Col. Paul Tibbets and Major Charles Sweeney.
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I believe it was Col Paul Tibbets. I will have to check and verify that.
"Enola Gay." The B29 Superfortress was named after the mother of pilot Colonel Paul. W. Tibbets, Jr.
* Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr.- pilot * Capt. Robert Lewis - copilot * Maj. Thomas Ferebee - bombardier * Capt. Theodore Van Kirk - navigator * Lt. Jacob Beser - radar countermeasures * Capt. William "Deak" Parsons - weaponeer * 2nd Lt. Maurice Jeppson - assistant weaponeer * Sgt. Joe Stiborik - radar * Staff Sgt. George Caron - tail gunner * Sgt. Robert Shumard - asst. flight engineer * Pfc. Richard Nelson - radio * Tech Sgt. Wayne Duzenberry - flight engineer
Col Paul Tibbets of the 509th Composite Bombardment Group based on Tinian island in the Pacific. The name of the modified B-29 Aircraft was the Enola Gay. For historical record there was not one, but two bombs dropped. Tibbets flew the first mission and dropped I think "Fat Boy" on Hiroshima and another pilot flew a second mission that dropped Little Man on Nagasaki.
'Enola Gay' was the name of the B-29 Superfortress which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. The pilot of 'Enola Gay', Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., named the aircraft after his mother.
Col. Henry Blake was killed on his plane ride stateside when his plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. He had just been discharged from his military tour and was returning home.
Col DeBeers's birth name is Ed Wiskoski.
Col Needham's birth name is Colin Needham.