(Photo from the New York Post)1915-2007
The man who effectively ended World War II, Paul Tibbets, passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Tibbets dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 from his B-29 bomber called Enola Gay (named as tribute to mother). The bomb was referred to as "Little Boy." As the New York Post writes, Tibbets was "a pilot of the U.S. Army Air Force's 509th Composite Group, based at Tinian in the Mariana Islands."
Despite lots of criticism, Tibbets never ever apologized for his action. As the Post writes, "He stoutly defended the dropping of the bomb, and claimed it never cost him uneasy moments: 'I sleep just fine.'"
May God Bless him.
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