Description
Signed photograph of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets standing in front of his aircraft, the Enola Gay.
Black and white photograph, measures 8″x10in. Signed in blue pen: “Paul Tibbets, Pilot / 6 Aug. 1945.”
Brigadier General Paul Tibbets (1915-2007) was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress, known as the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He was accompanied by Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk (1921-2014), the navigator of the Enola Gay and last surviving member of the crew.
