He also took part in Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa. He led the first American bombing raid on Occupied France in 1942, commanding one of the first squadrons to fly the Atlantic to England. Tibbets was a career airman, joining for a love of flying a few years before WWII. Fascinating biography of the man who piloted the Enola Gay, the B29 named after his beloved mother and from which they dropped the first atomic bomb used in history, on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
