"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.

Then-Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, dropping the atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" that ushered in the age of nuclear warfare.

When Iowa pilot Paul Tibbets redirected the B-29 after dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the taste of metal lingered in his mouth from radiation.

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 ...

Only Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot, and two naval officers who'd armed the bomb knew what terrible "top secret" power lay inside the overripe payload shackled securely in the plane's bomb bay.

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. His radio operator ...

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian, pilot Paul Tibbets reflected on his successful mission — ...

Though Tibbets had known the secret of the Manhattan Project since its start, many of the Enola Gay crew learned the phrase “atomic bomb” only when they gathered for the August mission itself.