Enola Gay Pilot Dies At 92

Paul Tibbets, the Air Force pilot and commander of the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan, died Nov. in Columbus, Ohio. He was 92. Tibbet's historic mission in the plane named for his mother was the first use of a nuclear weapon in wartime. The plane and it's crew of 14 dropped the 5-ton "Little Boy" bomb on the morning of Aug.6 1945. The blast killed 70,000 to 100,000 people and injured countless others. Tibbets then a 30 year old Air Force colonel, never expressed regret over his role. It was he said, his patriotic duty, the right thing to do. Tibbets has requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest.