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Enola Gay (Hazard) Tibbetts

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 father named her Enola Gay after the heroine of a novel that he liked.

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