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Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1915-2007

Biographical Note: Paul W. Tibbets

Paul W. Tibbets was a brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and is most remembered as the pilot who flew the Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" which dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1986-12-09-A
Content Description The Dora Jean (Dougherty) Strother WASP Photographs Collection is a small collection consisting of two photographs of Women Air Service Pilots at Elgin Air Force Base with the B-29 "Ladybird" before a B-29 demonstration tour in 1944.The first photograph depicts Women Airforce Service Pilots Dora J. Dougherty and Dorothea J. Moorman accepting aircraft papers from a representative of the Boeing Company for the B-29 "Ladybird" at Eglin Field, Florida, June 1944. Nose art of Fifinella,...

Harold W. Zipp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-11-12
Abstract Harold W. Zipp was an engineer at the Boeing Company for forty years. The collection documents his career, particularly his tenure in Wichita, Kansas, with diaries, photographs and other documents.

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