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 1 Collection or Record:
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...
Dates:
June 1944
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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