Tibbets 1915 (2 results)

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 8"x10" B&W photo - SIGNED in blue ink by famed aviator Paul Tibbets: "Paul Tibbets, Pilot- 6 Aug.,1945, To Hiroshima, Japan-12-16-01". Also includes laid-in the original New York Times obituary for Tibbets. SIGNED.

Condition: Good. 4to. 10 x 8 inches. Printed quote from the pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 "?the morality of dropping that bomb was not my business. I was instructed to perform a military mission? and that was the thing I was going to do to the best of my ability.", signed at close "Paul W. Tibbets", in excellent condition, Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the pilot who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay when it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.…