Paul Tibbets was born on 23 February 1915 in Quincy, Illinois, USA. He was previously married to Andrea P. Quattrehomme and Lucy Frances Wingate. He died on 1 November 2007 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
As a means of thwarting the actions of prospective anti-nuke protesters after his death, Tibbets requested that there be no funeral arrangements, and that he be buried in an unmarked grave site.
When the bomb was dropped, everyone craned his neck to watch the enormous black cloud that rose over the city - an effect quite different from anything any of them had ever seen. Then they flew back to the Marianas, eating ham sandwiches as they went.
