My newspaper reporter daughter interviewed Gen. Tibbets. My business partner was his neighbor for a time when they both lived in Washington D.C.
They both speak of the man using the highest terms of praise.
He was an outstanding person of honor and integrity.
We will miss this patriot.
Damn. I was so happy to read a couple of months ago that he was still alive and giving speeches.
Sad.
God bless you for your service during and after the war, Sir.
Every thanksgiving, my wife and I remember to offer explicit thanks to the efforts of the military, civilians, and scientists involved in WWII, in particular those involved in the noted atomic strikes (most have borne the memory of the experience with prolonged mental anguish and self-doubt).
Thank you again, Paul Tibbets. RIP
There’s a movie about Tibbets starring Robert Taylor. It may appear on one of the movie channels soon.
Was at the air and space museum yesterday. Saw the plane there. They had a large plexiglass shield on the walkway over the plane. Not sure what that shield is for but its sad they needed it.
It was humbling to stand next to it and realize how much it changed the world.
btt
“He was 92 and insisted almost to his dying day that he had no regrets about the mission and slept just fine at night.”
My kind of guy. He saved countless lives in the long run.
My Grandpa, a Machinist from Milwaukee, WI worked on building those bombs. :)
There was huge, huge hospital built in Fort Clayton, Canal Zone, known as “Building 519.” It was in preparation to receive the wounded as we went island hopping in the Pacific to finish the war against Japan.
But then, a wonderful thing happened. We dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and few days later on Nagasaki.
Building 519 never had to be used as a hospital. There was a little outpatient clinic at one end, and the rest was used as an office building.
Thank goodness for the atomic bomb.
Farewell to a great American military veteran who may have saved over one million American lives and maybe 12-14 times that in Japanese lives.
Paul Tibbets was a member of the greatest team fielded by the greatest generation. Farewell, you will not be forgotten.
Our country has lost someone who actually was a hero.
RIP
maybe there was a reason for you not being able to send the “family” 1st Halloween costume for the little man, and the only choices at the costume shop so last minute were a skunk or a WWII bomber pilot. He was adorable in his little goggles last night!
[back row (L-R) ] Major Ferebee, Captain Van Kirk, Colonel Tibbets, Captain Lewis
Staff Sgt. Caron, Sgt. Stiborik, Staff Sgt. Duzenbury, Pvt. 1st Class Nelson, Sgt. Shumard
Such things are never settled, as much as we can pretend otherwise, and call others “Communists” for asking philosophical or political questions. I try to remember,and you don’t have to, not being a “Communist”, that war is a failure of politics and politicians.
"...said he had NO regret over role in atomic blast!"
I wonder if these a**holes ever asked one of the Jap pilots who killed our troops at Pearl Harbor if he had any regrets.!" Drive-By Morons!