A second A-bomb was dropped in Nagasaki three days later, and Japan surrendered on August 15. The blast, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, destroyed a four square-mile area, and killing an estimated 70,000 people. Tibbets (1915-2007, born in Quincy, Illinois) was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, named after Tibbets’ mother, that dropped the first atomic bomb (nicknamed Little Boy) on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. Description ATOMIC BOMB: PAUL TIBBETS Shown posed in uniform in front of the Enola Gay Photograph signed: Paul Tibbets, Pilot/6 Aug.
