6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a historical turning point of the last century. General Tibbets became a military celebrity with the Aug. He was 92 and reportedly had suffered strokes in recent years.
Tibbets Jr., who piloted the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb in combat in an attack that helped end World War II and usher in the atomic age, died yesterday at his home in Columbus, Ohio.
