--- title: "3 Paul Tibbets Quotes - Famous Military officer (Mission)" description: "Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Browse 3 Paul Tibbets quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-paul-tibbets-77024.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Paul Tibbets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-paul-tibbets-77024.jpg) # Paul Tibbets (1915–2007) Military Officer **3** quotes in **38** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Paul Tibbets was a military officer, best known for *Mission*. ## Quick Facts About Paul Tibbets Born February 23, 1915 Died November 1, 2007 Profession Military Officer Notable works Mission ## About Paul Tibbets Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ## Quotes by Paul Tibbets > [I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tibbets/i-m-proud-that-i-was-able-to-start-with-nothing-plan-it-and-have-it/) [Paul Tibbets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tibbets/) [Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/paul-tibbets-77024_able_i-m-proud-that-i-was-able-to-start-with_627666.png) > [I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tibbets/i-will-go-only-so-far-as-to-say-that-i-knew-what-an-atom-was/) [Paul Tibbets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tibbets/) [Atom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baf/paul-tibbets-77024_atom_i-will-go-only-so-far-as-to-say-that-i-k_822874.png) > [A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tibbets/a-bright-light-filled-the-plane-the-first-shock-wave-hit-us-we-were/) [Paul Tibbets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tibbets/) [Airplane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/airplane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/paul-tibbets-77024_airplane_a-bright-light-filled-the-plane-the-firs_1980239.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tibbets/#itemlist", "name": "Paul Tibbets Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... 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