After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor he flew anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic. Tibbets enlisted in the army in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (Febru– November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay (named for his mother), the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. **** Signed by Pilot/Aircraft Commander Paul Tibbets!
