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TIBBETS
(Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., 1915-2007, US Brigadier General in the Air Force, who flew the Enola Gay and dropped the bomb on Hiroshima)
First Day Cover Signed
commemorating the Introduction of Boeing B-29, renamed the Washington I, to the Royal Air Force..., 7½ x 4½, postmarked Richmond, VA, 25th June
Item Date: 1982
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Background
He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used at the end of World War II, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945.
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