I went to a book-signing with General Paul Tibbets. He saw my motorcycle helmet and asked me what I rode.
I told him a Harley 93FXR.
“So where is it?” he asked.
“In the parking lot.” I replied.
“Well, let’s go see it.” he said.
With that, he got up from the book table and went outside with me.
“Nice Ride.” he said.
Then he went back into the hangar and began signing books.
I have never gotten over that. It was like a bizarre dream. Nobody believes me, but it DID happen.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs.
Holy crap
That is amazing
My wife and I met General Tibbets at Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, TX in the late 1990’s. I still have the Polaroid with the 3 of us.
That’s wild. When I met him I told him about my mother, a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb. He was speechless.