His ashes were sprinkled over the North Atlantic. When Paul Tibbets died in the fall of 2007 it was revealed that he preferred there not be a memorial service, nor any marker identifying his grave in order to deprive protesters of a staging ground. A few days before the Hiroshima mission, the crew of the Enola Gay were shown movie films of. Paul Tibbets remained in uniform long after the war and eventually retired as an Air Force General. Brad Manning, Enola Gay Bombardier Was Quite Cool Man Slept on Way to Drop A-Bomb, Charlotte Observer, 5 August 1990, 1 Sharon Churcher and Bill Lowther, ’I never lost a moment’s sleep after dropping the atom bomb on HiroshimaI saved millions of lives with a single press of a button on the Enola Gay’ On the 50th Anniversary. In this 1962 radio interview, Robert Lewis, Richard Nelson. A single page interview with Paul Tibbets (1915 – 2007) and the crew of the ENOLA GAY as they recalled their historic mission over Hiroshima for a reporter from YANK MAGAZINE.
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