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Paul Tibbets Jr., who flew plane that dropped first atomic bomb, dies at 92
Columbus Dispatch ^
| Thursday, November 1, 2007 10:29 AM
Posted on 11/01/2007 8:43:44 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
Paul Tibbets Jr., who flew the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan died this morning at his East Side home. He was 92.
Tibbets had suffered small strokes and heart failure in his final years and had been in hospice care.
He was born in Quincy, Ill., but grew up in Miami after his father moved the family there.
See link for complete story. Tibbets fell in love with flight and, at age 12, volunteered as a backseat assistant to a biplane pilot, dropping leaflets for the Curtiss Candy Co. at fairs, carnivals and other public gatherings.
He joined the Army Air Corps in 1938.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: atomicbomb; enolagay; milhist; obituary; paultibbets; paultibbetsjr; veterans; wwii
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To: snippy_about_it
Guess he was high enough to keep from getting any residual radiation. 92. Not even leukemia then.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:45:48 AM PDT
by
jwalburg
(Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. What does that say about schools?)
To: snippy_about_it
Rest in Peace, Colonel Tibbets.
Your actions saved a million American lives, and at least fifteen million Japanese lives by averting an invasion that would have degenerated into an ‘extermination’ ala Okinawa, Tarawa, Iwo Jima.
You never once backed down from your detractors, most of whom were born well after December 7th, 1941. You didn’t seek glory, you just did your duty.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:46:30 AM PDT
by
Badeye
('Ron Paul joined 88 Democrats.....")
To: snippy_about_it
RIP, General Tibbetts. You did your duty well.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:47:04 AM PDT
by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: DieHard the Hunter; James Ewell Brown Stuart; alfa6; Allen H; Colonial Warrior; texianyankee; ...
Foxhole Interest Ping
RIP COL. TIBBETS Jr.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:47:19 AM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul. WWPD (what would Patton do))
To: snippy_about_it
So Long Airman!
May your wings allow you to soar and touch the face of God!
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:48:04 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: indcons
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:48:27 AM PDT
by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: All
Always remember the buck stopped at Harry Truman’s desk.
To: snippy_about_it
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:50:10 AM PDT
by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: zot; Interesting Times; SeraphimApprentice
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:50:20 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
To: snippy_about_it
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:50:28 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: snippy_about_it
Tibbets’ death will bring out the usual kook rewriters of history who can’t believe Japan had more than a million men still at arms, waiting for our invasion.
To: Badeye
“Rest in Peace, Colonel Tibbets.
Your actions saved a million American lives..”
Amen, rest in peace. You helped get my Dad home.
To: Badeye
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:51:35 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: snippy_about_it
You saved my fathers life, I salute you sir.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:52:45 AM PDT
by
The Louiswu
(Never Forget!)
To: snippy_about_it
RIP, Paul. Your actions helped avoid a certain bloodbath and could have very well taken my Father, who would have been one of those taking part in a mainland Japan invasion.
You will be missed. God bless you.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:52:46 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: snippy_about_it
RIP General Tibbets. Thank you and God for your service which, in all probability, saved my father's life as he was preparing for the invasion of Japan, and allowed myself and my borthers and our families to be born into this world as Americans, and citizens of the freest and most blessed nation on earth.
God's blessings of peace and comfort to your family and loved ones.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:52:49 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: abb
He did his duty & never suffered a second thought - he was convinced of the rightness of his cause.
A trait conspicuously absent in our nuerotic era.
RIP Colonel, and thanks.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:52:51 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: All
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:53:59 AM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul. WWPD (what would Patton do))
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I shudder to think about what the DUmmies are saying about Tibbets.
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posted on
11/01/2007 8:54:12 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
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