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To: evad
PT: Unknown to anybody else - I knew it, but nobody else knew - there was a third one. See, the first bomb went off and they didn't hear anything out of the Japanese for two or three days. The second bomb was dropped and again they were silent for another couple of days. Then I got a phone call from General Curtis LeMay [chief of staff of the strategic air forces in the Pacific]. He said, "You got another one of those damn things?" I said, "Yessir." He said, "Where is it?" I said, "Over in Utah." He said, "Get it out here. You and your crew are going to fly it." I said, "Yessir." I sent word back and the crew loaded it on an airplane and we headed back to bring it right on out to Trinian and when they got it to California debarkation point, the war was over.
12 posted on 08/06/2005 8:15:36 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Thanks A A


13 posted on 08/07/2005 4:26:55 AM PDT by evad ( PC KILLS..and so do liberal judges.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
wow!
I didn't know Tibbits was still alive.
14 posted on 08/07/2005 4:35:10 AM PDT by evad ( PC KILLS..and so do liberal judges.)
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