PAUL TIBBETS (Pilot, Enola Gay): As we approached the target, finally, Ferebee says I got the aiming point, which was Aioi Bridge, if I remember the name of it correctly. Tibbets remembered his bombardier, spotting their target from 31,000 feet above Japan. In 2000, Paul Tibbets told NPR about the attack of August 6, 1945. He was then a 30-year-old colonel and he'd named his plane Enola Gay after his mother. General Paul Tibbets did many things in his 92 years, but nothing more world-shattering than piloting the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb. A famous military man of an earlier era has died.
