Enola Gay Tibbets (née Haggard, 1890 - 1966). Born in Iowa, she was the daughter of Alfred Allen Haggard and Mary Lavina Wareham. In 1912, Haggard married Paul Warfield Tibbets and they had two children: Paul Warfield Jr. and Barbara Ann.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. became a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the pilot who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay when it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
- "Tibbets' thoughts, he confided in his autobiography, had turned to his "courageous red-haired mother..." https://www.theguardian.com/.../guardianobituaries.military
- "... an endeavor through which he had also met Enola Gay, a “redheaded Iowa farm girl.” http://airportjournals.com/paul-tibbets-a-rendezvous.../
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| Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. and the Enola Gay |
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