Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.