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.
