Grandson of Enola Gay pilot to command B-2 unit

Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets IV, the grandson of Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets Jr., has been selected to take command of the 509thBomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base.

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Paul W. Tibbets IV” by United States Air Force – http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/484345/brigadier-general-paul-w-tibbets-iv.aspx. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.


His grandfather flew the Enola Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb.

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