"It was a big, white, two-story house with green shutters," Tibbets wrote, adding that it was "at the top of a small hill on Waterbury Road in what you would call a good neighborhood." The Des Moines city directory of the period shows the family living at 5700 Waterbury Road. was 3, the Tibbets family moved to Davenport, "and a couple of years later, we bought a house in Des Moines," Tibbets wrote in his autobiography, "The Tibbets Story," later titled "The Return of the Enola Gay." Later, the couple had a daughter, Barbara. 23, 1915, in Quincy, Illinois, the first child of Paul Warfield Tibbets and his Iowa-born wife, Enola Gay Haggard. For several years, he called Des Moines home. The man who played a monumental and pivotal role near the end of World War II spent much of his boyhood in Iowa. Editor's note: This story originally published in the Register's Famous Iowans database.įew people have altered the course of history as significantly as bomber pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.
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