Paul Tibbets was sent to Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas, for primary and basic flight instruction.
Paul Tibbets during the time he was while flying combat missions against the Germans. So, he dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army’s Aviation Cadet Training Program on February 25, 1937. While in Florida, he took flight training at Miami’s Opa-Locka Airport.Īlthough his parents wanted him to become a doctor, Tibbets wanted to become a pilot. He attended both the University of Florida at Gainesville and the University of Cincinnati pursuing a degree in medicine. Later, the family moved back to the Midwest where Tibbets graduated high school from the Western Military Academy. As part of an advertising stunt, Tibbets tossed Baby Ruth candy bars with tiny paper parachutes to the crowd. Tibbets was flying with barnstormer Doug Davis in a biplane. Tibbets had his first airplane ride when he was 12 at a carnival at the Hialeah horse track outside of Miami. As a boy, he was very interested in flying. In 1923, his family moved to Hialeah, Florida, to escape from harsh midwestern winters. was born in Quincy, Illinois, on February 23, 1915, the son of Paul Warfield Tibbets Sr.
