Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets dies

Just heard this on Fox News. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, has died in Columbus, Ohio, the Fox News Channel is reporting this morning.

He was 92.

More on Tibbets, who retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general, here, and on his official site, here.

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