[DOC] [TLE] Paul Tibbets - Wikipedia [PAR] Tibbets returned to the United States in February 1943. ... Manhattan Project, 
Lieutenant Colonel John Lansdale Jr., Captain William ... in both staff and 
command duties in heavy bomber combat operations, ... On 5 August 1945, 
Tibbets formally named his B-29 Enola Gay after his mother. [DOC] [TLE] Paul Tibbets - Military Leader - Biography.com [PAR] Sep 14, 2015 ... Paul Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in the history of warfare. ... 
On August 6, 1945, he piloted the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on the ... 
where he met and befriended George Patton, then a lieutenant colonel. ... During 
World War II, Paul Tibbets was named commanding officer of the... [DOC] [TLE] One hell of a big bang - The Guardian [PAR] Aug 6, 2002 ... Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay on its mission to Japan, ... in 
Japan, on a Sunday morning - August 6 1945 - and a bomb fell. ... ST: Now by 
1944 you were a pilot - a test pilot on the programme to develop the B-29 bomber
. ... Both of the others were full colonels; I was lieutenant-colonel. [DOC] [TLE] Col. Paul Tibbets dropped first Atomic Bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 | War ... [PAR] Jun 4, 2010 ... The Red Gremlin was the plane he piloted as commander of the first B-17 ... Lt. 
Col. Paul Tibbets waves to the ground crew on August 6, 1945 as he ... the first 
atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan that help end World War II a few days later. ... 
I put my name and phone number on your bomber over your seat... [DOC] [TLE] Paul W. Tibbets Jr., Pilot of Enola Gay, Dies at 92 - The New York ... [PAR] Nov 2, 2007 ... Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 ... In the 
hours before dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted off from the ... of 
Hiroshima, the site of an important Japanese Army headquarters. ... Estimates for 
the dead and injured in the bombing have varied widely over the years. [DOC] [TLE] The Men Who Dropped the Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki [PAR] Aug 5, 2013 ... At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 1945, a propeller-driven, four-engine ... 
Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, dropper of Little Boy, ... 
Promoted to lieutenant colonel by November 1942, Tibbet's cut his teeth ... in 
which he vented his displeasure at Sweeney's command of the bombing. [DOC] [TLE] The Crew of the Enola Gay on Dropping the Atomic Bomb | Mental ... [PAR] Aug 6, 2015 ... On August 6, 194570 years ago todaythe B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped 
... The mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (special mission 13) 
.... Over the past half century, some of the crew have returned to the city to take ... 
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Tibbets was chosen to head the bomb... [DOC] [TLE] 70 years after Hiroshima, grandson carries on ... - Kansas City Star [PAR] Aug 5, 2015 ... Paul W. Tibbets IV is commander of the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force 
Base, near Knob Noster, Mo. His grandfather, who piloted the... [DOC] [TLE] Paul Tibbets and the Enola Gay, Dropped the First Atomic Bomb [PAR] Its pilot, Paul Tibbets, thought briefly of the recent B-29 crashes on Tinian, and 
then ... Tibbets checked his watch, which showed 2:45AM, the morning of August 
6, 1945. ... Here he met George Patton, then a Lieutenant Colonel, and destined 
to ... 18 bombers flew that mission, the first of over 300,000 bomber sorties that 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Colonel Paul Tibbets - Atomic Heritage Foundation [PAR] Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets  Listen to Paul Tibbets's Oral History on Voices of the ... 
daylight heavy bomber misson in Occupied France in August 1942, Tibbets was 
selected to ... men that would be responsible for dropping the first atomic bomb 
on Japan. ... In late May

Question: Lt. Col. Paul Tibbetts commanded this bomber over Japan in August 1945
Answer: the Enola Gay