Enola Gay Tibbets
Enola Gay (Hazard) Tibbetts (
December 10,
1893 -
May 1983), wife of
Paul Warfield Tibbets was the mother of
Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the
B-29 that dropped the first
atomic bomb. Her son named his
plane, the one that would drop the atomic bomb, after her.
Her father named her Enola Gay after the heroine of a novel that he liked.