[jwalburg]

Guess he was high enough to keep from getting any residual radiation. 92. Not even leukemia then.

[Badeye]

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.

[abb]

RIP, General Tibbetts. You did your duty well.

[snippy_about_it]

Foxhole Interest Ping

RIP COL. TIBBETS Jr.

[Young Werther]

So Long Airman!

May your wings allow you to soar and touch the face of God!

[Fitzcarraldo]

Always remember the buck stopped at Harry Truman’s desk.

[GreyFriar]

Ping.

[tioga]

RIP

[Eric in the Ozarks]

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.

[The Louiswu]

You saved my fathers life, I salute you sir.

[reagan_fanatic]

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.

[Jeff Head]

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.

[snippy_about_it]

The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Colonel Paul Tibbets - May 10th, 2004

[DieHard the Hunter]

RIP Col Tibbets, and thankyou for your Service. A good job, well done: you did not balk from your duty and thereby saved millions of lives.

[HockeyPop]

RIP colonel Tibbets. You’ve done our people proud as did those unheralded heroes of the Manhattan Project.

[Lancey Howard]

RIP to a man who helped America WIN World War II.

[IamConservative]

RIP Mr. Tibbets.

I wonder if his duty ever haunted him?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Wow. I fell victim to the rumor that Tibbets committed suicide decades ago and had no idea he was still around.

Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier on the Hiroshima flight passed back in 2000. There’s a historical marker at the farmhouse where he grew up out in the sticks of the NC northwest piedmont.

[fieldmarshaldj]

May he rest in peace.

[Nowhere Man]

The man who works in the tobacco shop at our local supermarket, he is 83/84 years old. He served in the Army in World War II and was stationed at Tinian and remembers watching them loading something secret aboard the Enoly Gay, he was within a couple hundred feet of the action. He also watched the plane take off. When Tibbets returned, he was bartender that night in the offcier's club and remember serving a drink to Tibbets himself and he remembers Tibbets telling him, "what have we done?" since the atom bomb was new at the time. I find it neat to talk to somene who actually witnessed one of the most important events in history.

My physics teacher was being trained to fly B-24's and he was on his way over to the pacific in his B-24 when he got word that the atomic bombs wwere dropped and Japan surrendered. He is 87/88, still flies his own plane and teaches his great grandkids on how to drive.

RIP Col. Tibbets