His grandson is an Air Force Academy graduate who came up flying B-2 Spirit bombers. His family was also a proud military family. He even re-enacted the bombing in a B-29 during a 1976 Texas air show and denounced the Smithsonian’s exhibition of the actual plane when it debuted because of the exhibition’s focus on the suffering of the Japanese people and not the brutality of the Japanese military. He proudly named his airplane Enola Gay after his beloved mother. At the time of the Hiroshima bombing, he was one of the youngest but most experienced pilots in the Army Air Forces. It wasn’t that Tibbets wasn’t proud of his service. But instead of being interred at home or at Arlington National Cemetery with all his brothers in arms, he was cremated and his ashes spread across the English Channel.
He was the man who dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat against an enemy city. He was never forgotten, however, and never would be. Enola Gay, Hiroshima Mission Strike plane carrying Little Boy atomic bomb.
The Hiroshima bombardment killed less people than the. When Paul Tibbets died in January 2007, he had been retired from the Air Force since 1966. Paul Tibbets confessed that he had never any problems to sleep after dropping the bomb over Hiroshima.