When young Tibbets hear the plan, the only thing the 12-year-old could think of was being up in that biplane, throwing out those candy bars. “He sold Curtiss on the idea of dropping those candy bars from an airplane over large gatherings of people.” “He was an entrepreneur who was always trying to figure an angle for an airplane to play a part,” Tibbets recalled. Curtiss had a new candy bar, the “Baby Ruth,” and Doug Davis had a plan to promote it. His father, Paul Warfield Tibbets, owned a wholesale confectionary business and was the area distributor for Curtiss Candy.
He hadn’t slept much the night before, thinking about what was ahead. 1, 2007, after months of failing health.Īs he reminisced, Tibbets recalled that it was a perfect day for his important mission. It was a “bombing run,” but it wasn’t the one most people equate with Tibbets’ name when they hear of the 92-year-old’s death, on Nov.
talked to Airport Journals about one of the most momentous occasions in his life.
