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Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, died today. He was 92.
Tibbets dropped an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" over Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:16 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945. As many as 200,000 people may have been killed within five years by the blast and its aftereffects, according to the Energy Department.
The Associated Press reports that Tibbets, who retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general in 1966, had no regrets about his role in the world's first atomic airstrike. "You've got to take stock and assess the situation at that time. We were at war. ... You use anything at your disposal," he was quoted as saying in 1975. "I sleep clearly every night," he added.
Tibbets wanted to be cremated, with no funeral or grave marker left to inspire protests.
source: *blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/11/enola-gay-pilot.html
more news : *www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/obituaries/01cnd-tibbets.html?hp
Tibbets dropped an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" over Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:16 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945. As many as 200,000 people may have been killed within five years by the blast and its aftereffects, according to the Energy Department.
The Associated Press reports that Tibbets, who retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general in 1966, had no regrets about his role in the world's first atomic airstrike. "You've got to take stock and assess the situation at that time. We were at war. ... You use anything at your disposal," he was quoted as saying in 1975. "I sleep clearly every night," he added.
Tibbets wanted to be cremated, with no funeral or grave marker left to inspire protests.
source: *blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/11/enola-gay-pilot.html
more news : *www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/obituaries/01cnd-tibbets.html?hp
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