Paul Tibbets, the man who led the crew that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, died in Columbus, Ohio today. He was 92.
The five-ton "Little Boy" bomb was dropped on the morning of 6 August 1945, killing about 140,000 Japanese, with many of them dying later.On the 60th anniversary of the bombing, the three surviving crew members of the Enola Gay – named after Tibbet's mother – said they had "no regrets."