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This worsened after his discharge (Very nearly dishonorable) until he died in the early 70's as I recall. A photograph of the Enola Gay, signed by pilot Paul Tibbets, has a prominent place on the wall among Miles Abel’s World War II keepsakes. Carousing, drinking and fighting were all in a day’s play for him. A Tibbets put it Claude was a spirited pilot and trouble found him without much provocation. The pilot in question is Claude Eatherly and was PIC of the weather plane launched prior to the first bombing raid, he was more than 225 miles away from the blast on his way back to Tinian when it occurred. To tutaj, 5 sierpnia, na pokad bombowca B-29, Enola Gay ', zwanego tak na cze matki pilota, zaadowano pierwsz bomb uranow.
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I don't know if he left any diaries or letters or anything that would confirm this one way or the other, but it doesn't just come out of thin air, and it is not from the naval commander, either. Here, on August 5, the worlds first uranium bomb was loaded into a B-29 bomber - named Enola Gay after its pilots mother. Despite the drinking or whatever it was, this man was an expert pilot and did his job. Tibbets says this has nothing to do with guilt over the bombing. Paul Tibbetts sic did not die a hero to America. This pilot had mental/and or drinking problems before the war, which continued after the war and worsened. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay, died today. Harwit also felt strongly that an exhibit using the Enola Gay could not focus solely on the Hiroshima bombing mission. So here is the other part of the story according to Paul Tibbets book which I have. I didn't know a lot about the history of the bombings then, or warbirds yet but I recall this. So this pilot, may have been Sweeney or Eatherly, did have this reputation way back then. The Enola Gay is a modified B-29 Super Fortress in the cabin of the plane it had enough room to hold the atomic bomb. But instead of being interred at home or at Arlington National. He was the man who dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat against an enemy city. He was never forgotten, however, and never would be. Despite its name, the Little Boy, made a lot of damage to Japanese land. When Paul Tibbets died in January 2007, he had been retired from the Air Force since 1966. I don't recall much else about the story, but I do recall it happening. The Enola Gay is a specially built plane, that held the very first atomic bomb. As I read the Sunday New York Times special section on the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, I felt that the newspaper was trying to make me feel sorry for the Mafirebombing of Tokyo by our B-29 bombers from the Marianas Islands.
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I think this pilot was still alive then, but drinking heavily and troubled, may have been in a hospital. I recall about when I was in high school, being in Galveston, I think in a service station, and the owner was talking about one the B-29 pilots, supposed to be haunted by the bombings.