Later, the couple had a daughter, Barbara. 23, 1915, in Quincy, Illinois, the first child of Paul Warfield Tibbets and his Iowa-born wife, Enola Gay Haggard. For several years, he called Des Moines home. The man who played a monumental and pivotal role near the end of World War II spent much of his boyhood in Iowa. Editor's note: This story originally published in the Register's Famous Iowans database.įew people have altered the course of history as significantly as bomber pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.