Enola Gay Pilot Died at 92!

[solomon_paulraj]

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: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline...gay-pilot.html

more news : http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/ob...ibbets.html?hp

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

RIP for the Mass muderer

[nix]

cmon, it wasnt his plan to bomb japan...nor did he make the bomb...he was only following orders...
if he knew how destructive it could be, i dont think he would have done it in the first place...

[faraaz]

@nix: He clearly says that he doesn't regret his decision. Having said that, agar woh nahin karta, toh koi aur karta...pointless to lay blame at the underlings.

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

The main aim of Dropping Nuke was to gain superiority over Soviet Union .Since Soviets already Ran over Nazi Germany ...more Sooner than Western Allies and more efficiently