"As a little kid, you're just in awe that all these people want to see and talk to the man that tucked you in bed every night," Kia Tibbets said.

As was his wont on long flights, Col. Paul Tibbets, piloting a B-29, puffed on his pipe as, 80 years ago Wednesday, he transported humanity from one geopolitical era to another.

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." ...

The bomber, which was used during World War II to drop an atomic bomb onto Hiroshima, Japan, was named Enola Gay after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the bomber's pilot, Col. Paul Tibbets Jr ...

Colonel Paul W Tibbets solemnly waves from the cockpit of the Enola Gay B-29 Army bomber just minutes before taking off in the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, on a mission to Hiroshima. The ...

Eighty years ago, my father Irvng Winkler, commanding an Army Signal Corps unit, was on the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. This was the base from which Lieutenant Colonel Paul ...