Paul Tibbets
publication date: Monday, October 24, 2016 (part of Fall 2016)
category: 
Military
clue: Lots of nervous parents drop off their little boys at school or the park. No one expects a death toll in the tens of thousands like his.
explanation: Tibbets was the pilot who dropped Little Boy, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. more…
difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Justin Woods, Samir Mehta, LaVonne Lemler, and Chris Lemler
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