![items of the enola gay pilots items of the enola gay pilots](https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/9bf14415/dms3rep/multi/DSC_7854.jpg)
In fact, I viewed my mission as one to save lives rather than take them. To me it mean putting an end to the fighting and the consequent loss of lives.
![items of the enola gay pilots items of the enola gay pilots](https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/15959/15841810_1.jpg)
"On Augas the Enola Gay approached the Japanese city of Hiroshima, I fervently hoped for success in the first use of a nuclear type weapon. Albury, Co-Pilot, 'The Great Artiste' Hiroshima 8-6-45, Bockscar, Nagasaki 8-9-45." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Presentation copy, signed by Tibbets and five fellow American WWII aviators, "Paul Tibbets", "Dutch Van Kirk", "Morris Jeppson, Weapon Test Officer, Enola Gay Mission", "Jack Widowsky, Navigator - 'Top Secret'", "Russ Gackenbach, Nav - Necessary Evil, Hiroshima, 6 Aug. Collectible.įirst edition of Tibbets' account of the bombing of Hiroshima. To those who ask, I quickly reply, 'Not in the least.'" - Publisher. Likewise, I have been asked in letters and to my face if I was not conscious stricken for the loss of life I caused by dropping the first atomic bomb. The intervening years has brought me many letters and personal contacts with individuals who maintain that they would not be alive if it had not been for what I did. To me it meant putting an end to the fighting and the consequent loss of lives. "On August 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay approached the Japanese city of Hiroshima, I fervently hoped for success in the first use of a nuclear type weapon. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author Paul Tibbets. Cloth, 339 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations 24 cm.