Pacific Nuclear Tests

William Sterling “Deak” Parsons was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1922 and the Naval Postgraduate School in 1929 with a concentration in ordnance. During World War II, he served at the Naval Proving Grounds in Dahlgren, Virginia and at the Applied Physics Laboratory […]

Paul Tibbets, Jr. (1915 – 2007) rose to brigadier general in the United States Air Force. As a colonel, he piloted the Enola Gay, which dropped the Little Boy bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.   Flight Training and Early Success After receiving basic flight training at Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas in 1937, Tibbets […]