About Paul Tibbets.

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kill to save more lives because of the war.

ON 6 and August 9, 1945, the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bomb was carried by the B-29. "B-san aka Mr-B, that Japanese people were forced to call at once appreciate the bomber B-29 being the most famous," writes John Hersey in Hiroshima, when Bombs Dropped. And pilots who menjatuhan atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima from a B-29 Enola Gay ibunya- -the name is Paul Tibbets.
Paul's father never supported a pilot because of hate planes and motorcycles. When Paul said he wanted to go fly a plane, his father said, "I've been sending you a school, buy a car, give money to have fun with the girls. If you want to kill yourself, please. I do not care, "said Paul Warfield Tibbets imitating his father Paul Sr., in an interview with The Guardian, August 6, 2002. While his mother, Enola Gay Haggard, simply said," Paul, if you want to fly a plane, you'll be fine. "
Paul Tibbets was born in Quincy, Illinois, on February 23, 1915. His father wanted Paul to become a doctor. But, he was more interested in the military. Pass the Western Military Academy, a private military prep school, in Alton, Illinois, which was founded in 1879 and closed in 1971; Paul went on to the University of Florida in Gainesville. Then he thought to be a surgeon and entered the University of Cincinnati in Ohio for a year and a half, before finally changed his mind again, and joined the corps of the US Air Force. During World War II, Paul mission-critical flight mission until he was given the award for best aviator US Air Force.
In September 1944, after Paul tried to fly the B-29, a man approached him. He conveyed the message that General Uzal Ent, commander of the 2nd Air Force based in Colorado, waiting for him at nine in the morning.
In the office of General Uzal Ent, Paul had to wait several people, including the US Navy Captain William Parsons, with her later flew to Hiroshima, and Dr. Norman Ramsey, a professor of nuclear physics from the University of Columbia, which describes the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb.
Before the task of dropping the atomic bomb, Paul first learn about the ins and outs of his explosives. Dr. Oppenheimmer explain how to escape from the atomic blast and Dr. Norman Ramsey explains the power of the atomic bomb that reaches 20,000 tons of TNT. The pilot maneuvers the aircraft to avoid any atom wave several times done. He chose Wendover Air Base in Utah as a training base. Until the day it arrived.
Base station bombing plans on the island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands. The island was originally under the power of Japan, and then successfully captured the Allies. On this island has built two bases, namely the North and West. North Base B-29 used as a home base. On July 26, 1945, the second atomic bomb Fat-Man and Little Boy brought to this island using the USS Indianapolis. Various information about the given target area, such as weather conditions, "the sixth day of August is the most appropriate day to fly over the island of Honshu," said Paul.
Aircraft B-29 Enola Gay carry atomic bomb Little Boy with a 3 meter long, 71 cm wide, and weighs 4000 kg. Uranium supplied from the giant plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the Manhattan Project. The crew of the B-29 Enola Gay consists of: Paul Tibbets (pilot), Robert A. Lewis (copilot), Ted Van Kirk (navigator), William S Parsons (which activates the bomb before it was dropped), Thomas W. Frebee (interpreter viewfinder / release bomb), Bob Caron (defender behind the plane's tail to keep the possibility of an attack Japan). Right midnight on the sixth day of August, they took off.
At 8:15 pm Japan time, the B-29 has been up to the sky above Hiroshima. From a height of nearly 10 thousand feet they count. Little-Boy was dropped. In one micro-second, the city of Hiroshima was not there. Hundreds of thousands of people died instantly, the rest injured for life, and few have survived.
Rescue maneuvers of the atomic bomb blast wave was conducted. "A bright light meet our plane and plane turning back to look at Hiroshima. The city is hidden behind clouds that terrible, "recalls Paul. Upon returning to the air base at Tinian Island at 3 pm, she was greeted by General Carl Spaatz and give medals Distinguished Service Cross and other crew members received Air Medals.
Not just once, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The results have shaken Japan's imperial expansion and the end of World War II.
Post World War II, the family life of Paul the verge of collapse. He was divorced from his wife, Lucy Wingate in 1955. And remarried with French women, Andrea Quattrehomme. In 1959, he was promoted to Brigadier General and retired on August 31, 1966. Paul died on 1 November 2007 at the age of 92 years.
Japanese people remember the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the most distressing events. Each year they commemorate and pray for the victims, who suffered a lifetime, or the loss of a family member. Until now, this action is still questionable. World sued. America itself quibble atomic bomb had saved the lives that would be lost if the war many continued. Like what is believed Paul and other crew: "Yes, we will kill a lot of people, but we will save many lives. We do not need to attack (Japan).
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