Tibbets Family Legacy Continues with B-29 Flyover

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12.07.2011

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Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets Jr., left, and his grandson, then-Capt. Paul Tibbets IV, pilot the last flyable B-29 Superfortress. General Tibbets was the pilot in command of the “Enola Gay” when it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945. Now a colonel, the younger Tibbets is the Air Force Inspection Agency commander at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Courtesy photo

• Date Taken: 12.07.2011
• Date Posted: 07.03.2025 13:58
• Photo ID: 9149937
• VIRIN: 111207-D-D0439-3125
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