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Paul Tibbets

1915 - 2007

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Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Tibbets enlisted in the United States Army in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Tibbets is the 309th most popular military personnel (down from 153rd in 2019), the 1,062nd most popular biography from United States (down from 411th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Military Personnel.

Paul Tibbets was most famous for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Paul Tibbets ranks 309 out of 2,058. Before him are Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Baji Rao I, Andrey Yeryomenko, Werner Mölders, Usama ibn Zayd, and Zhao Yun. After him are Orda Khan, Roman Shukhevych, Nicolas Oudinot, Rochus Misch, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Vasily Blyukher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Paul Tibbets ranks 37. Before him are Fred Hoyle, Robert Hofstadter, Curd Jürgens, Les Paul, Henry Taube, and Geraldine of Albania. After him are Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Albert O. Hirschman, Helmut Schön, Thomas Huckle Weller, Modibo Keïta, and Aziz Nesin. Among people deceased in 2007, Paul Tibbets ranks 32. Before him are István Sándorfi, Barry Nelson, Jerry Falwell, Deborah Kerr, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Arthur Kornberg. After him are Nils Liedholm, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Ryszard Kapuściński, Abdul Rahman Arif, Alan MacDiarmid, and Paul Lauterbur.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Tibbets ranks 1,062 out of 20,380. Before him are Gertrude Ederle (1905), David Bohm (1992), Joe Morton (1947), Sylvia Earle (1935), Jonathan Banks (1947), and John Hopfield (1933). After him are H. L. Mencken (1880), Rick Rubin (1963), Stanley Tucci (1960), Drew Weissman (1959), Ali MacGraw (1939), and Alan Arkin (1934).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Paul Tibbets ranks 20. Before him are J. D. Tippit (1924), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Alvin York (1887), Omar Bradley (1893), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), and Ernest King (1878). After him are William D. Leahy (1875), Matthew C. Perry (1794), John J. Pershing (1860), Mark Milley (1958), Albert Pike (1809), and Carl Spaatz (1891).

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