Paul Tibbets nació el 23 de febrero de 1915 en Illinois, EE.UU.. Estuvo casado con Andrea P. Quattrehomme y Lucy Frances Wingate. Murió el 1 de noviembre de 2007 en Columbus, Ohio, Estados Unidos.
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.