Commentary: What Americans owe to those who serve Nov 9, 2009
This November also marks the second anniversary of the death, at age 92, of my friend Paul Tibbets, who I got to know extraordinarily well during the last years of his life ... Paul Tibbets told the president that, yes, some people indeed were. (CNN -- US)
The Get-Cheney Squad Sep 3, 2009
Can it be that the same United States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to prosecute a CIA agent for faking an execution and threatening, but never intending, to kill the children of Khalid Sheik Muhammad. Why is Barack Obama allowing these prosecutions to proceed. (Human Events Online)
Cracking Khalid Aug 28, 2009
Can it be that the same United States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to prosecute a CIA agent for faking an execution and threatening, but never intending, to kill the children of Khalid Sheik Muhammad ... Can it be that the same United States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to... (The American Conservative)
Remember history of WWII atomic bombs Aug 6, 2009
Col. Paul Tibbets was asked if he could drop a single bomb and destroy an entire Japanese city even if he knew American POWs were there ... In Hiroshima the week before Paul Tibbets dropped his bomb, there were 23 American POWs and Mitsuo Fuchida. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
WWII female pilot to have grave marked at Sharon Center Jul 16, 2009
Colonel Paul Tibbets, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, picked Dora Dougherty Strother and Dorothea Johnson Moorman to market the plane from base to base. They showed the men that the four-engine bomber was safe -- safe enough for a woman -- to fly. (Kalona News, IA)
Enola Gay crewman dies in La Center Jun 18, 2009
The Enola Gay became the first plane to accomplish that mission on Aug. 6, 1945, when Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the B-29 from the 509th's base on the Pacific island of Tinian to Hiroshima. After the flight took off, "Everybody knew something was going on," said Mike Hancock, one of the veteran's three sons. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Jun 6, 2009
But to make the Enola Gay, named for pilot Col. Paul Tibbets mother, as light as possible to accommodate the weight of the almost 10,000-pound A-bomb nicknamed Little Boy, it had only two tail guns and no armor. Betty Gordon/bgordon@ajc. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Obituaries in the news Jun 5, 2009
The support plane dropped instruments to measure the magnitude of the blast and levels of radioactivity for the Hiroshima mission led by Col. Paul Tibbets Jr.. Three days later, Albury copiloted the mission over Nagasaki. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
More of this story Jun 4, 2009
Gen. Paul Tibbets Jr. who, flying the B-29 Enola Gay (named after his mother), dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, essentially ending WWII; and Travis Hoover, a member of the Doolittle Raiders that flew B-25s off the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, bombing Tokyo, Japan, resulting in the first offensive strike of any significance by the U.S. against Japan in the early part of WWII.. That launch raised the psyche and morale of U.S. citizenry and military beyond anything you can... (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Living Under the Cloud Feb 17, 2009
Says Van Kirk: "I was timing it with my watch. It was supposed to take 43 seconds, and we all concluded it had been a dud, because it took longer. Then it exploded." The pilot of the Enola Gay, Colonel Paul Tibbets, had put the plane into a 180 turn to the west and was getting away from the target as fast as he could. "All we saw," recalls Van Kirk, "was a bright flash.". (Time.com)
