History Matters: Paul Tibbets

Red River Radio

Published November 26, 2019 at 7:35 AM CST

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Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.

United States Air Force

Dr. Gary Joiner

Credit Dr. Gary Joiner / Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, November 26, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner remembers Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, waving from its cockpit. Photograph taken by soldier Armen Shamlian of the United States Army Air Forces

Credit Photo taken by 509th photographer Pfc. Armen Shamlian / This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.