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PAUL TIBBETS  

Paul Tibbets died today at age 92 in his Columbus, Ohio home. He piloted the B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, when it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was the first of two nuclear bombs to be dropped on Japan.
Paul Tibbets died recently at the immense age of 92. Not too many people can be said to have helped saved the lives of millions of people, especially when the act he is most famous for snuffed out the lives of hundreds of thousands.
While global power brokers declare wars around the world, common soldiers serve in these wars. Such men as Paul Tibbets do not hunger for power so much as they serve their nation in hopes of protecting their families.
Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.(ret), who piloted the airplane that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on an enemy target, ending one war and ushering in a cold war, has died. Tibbets died of natural causes Nov 1 in Columbus, Ohio.
Based on exclusive conversations and communications with Enola Gay oo-pilot Bob Lewis, and Gerry Newhouse, personal aide to pilot (now General) Paul Tibbets. Much of this copy appears in my four World War II books.
The prelude and the deadly aftermath of "Little Boy," the atomic bomb that leveled most of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.
The Enola Gay' claims to historical fame rests on the fact that it dropped the first atomic bomb, The Little Boy, on Hiroshima...
An article describing EAA's Timeless Voices of Aviation program
Opinion piece regarding government reform in the nuclear age. How revoluntion of old can not work when the government has nuclear power.
This takes a look at Irans stance on its nuclear adventures and the defiance it is putting up against America and the USA. Is this defiance justified?