The debate over how the war was won has continued.
However, each event is experienced one person at a time, and each person has an individual story to tell. War affects governments and groups of people on such a large scale that it can be overwhelming. World War II was the largest human-made catastrophe in history, affecting almost every country in the world and touching the lives of every family in the United States. Last crew member of Enola gay dies in Georgia. FOR SALE The item you are buying is a HAND SIGNED and BECKETT. Brig Gen Paul Tibbets IV remembers his grandfather the Enola Gay pilot. PAUL TIBBETS SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED 8x10 PHOTO ENOLA GAY PILOT HIROSHIMA BECKETT BAS - 265.00. I think we saved thousands and thousands of lives." - Vince Ortman. Enola Gay pilots grandson now leads 509th Bomb Wing. In this documentary Tibbets co-produced with the Buckeye Aviation Book Company, Reflections on Hiroshima, he recounts his memories of the day the atomic bomb was first used in warfare. We would have had to kill off all the Japanese, and there would have been a lot of Americans killed in the meantime. Colonel (later General) Paul Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The Japanese were never going to give up unless we had something like that. He commanded the 509th Combat Squadron, which conducted a number of still secret experiments having to do with the dropping of atomic bombs, and he. Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, best known as the pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb onto the Japanese war-supporting city of Hiroshima, has died at the age of 92.
"I thought at the time and I still do, that we saved an awful lot of lives. (Germany, of course, had surrendered months earlier.) Nebraskans celebrated V-J Day wholeheartedly on August 15. Notice a space has been left for the name of the city. Excerpt from announcing the dropping of the atomic bomb.