[jwalburg]

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

[Long Island Pete]

I seem to remember a social studies teacher of mine in Jr. High School mentioning that somehow he was involved with the bombings also. I wish I could remember his name.

[VOA]

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

Even the instruction materials from the Radiation Safety Office at
UCLA shows that exposure to some low-level radiation seems to
give a small, yet measurable increase in logevity to lab animals.

During my stay at a biochemistry dept. in a Big 12 university,
there were plenty of old professors (some that served in WWII and
Korea).
These guys tossed around radioisotopically-labeled biomolecules
for DECADES. One of them even worked at what was probably a
biological weapons lab at that old military site east of Denver that
was loaded with all sorts of nasty stuff stockpiled to warn "Ivan"
to not roll into Western Europe during the Cold War.

Contrary to what most would expect these biochem profs were doing
quite well even in their seventies and eighties. Their dying colleagues were
their friends from the poli-sci or art department dying of lung cancer, etc.

[NCC-1701]

RIP General Tibbets. You have earned your eternal rest. You and your crew on the Enola Gay, and those of Bocscar, helped hasten the end of the insanity know as World War II.

I read the book “Enola Gay - The Bombing of Hiroshima”, and by what I read, he was the right one at the right place at the right time to accomplish that first mission. He must have been a hell of an aircrew commander. In the book, it states that after dropping The Bomb, and after getting past the shock waves, they orbited Hiroshima twice to see what kind of damage occurred. They were all amazed at the results. Through the years, none of the crew of the Enola Gay came down with any radiation-related illnesses.

He came to Memphis about 15 years ago to be best man at another famous flier’s wedding, Col. Robert K. Morgan, pilot in command of the “Memphis Belle”. It was held beside the Belle. The only time, to my knowledge, the Paul Tibbets came to Memphis. He was someone I would love to have met.

[Diogenesis]

Short turnaround -- when the lawyers are not in charge.

[montag813]

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

It was a tiny bomb, by modern standards.

[GungaLaGunga]

To quote him:

“I’ve never had a sleepless night”.

God Bless his soul.