6, 1945, when the plane and its crew of 14 dropped the five-ton “Little Boy” bomb over Hiroshima. “It’s an end of an era,” said Newhouse, who served as Tibbets’ manager for a decade. It was the first time man had used nuclear weaponry against his fellow man. Tibbets’ historic mission in the plane Enola Gay, named for his mother, marked the beginning of the end of World War II. Tibbets had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest, Newhouse said. Tibbets died at his Columbus home after a two month decline from a variety of health problems, said Gerry Newhouse, a longtime friend. Paul Tibbets, the pilot and commander of the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died Thursday in Columbus Ohio, a spokesman said. Paul Tibbets, WWII commander of infamous B-29, requested no headstone