ENOLA GAY CREW (PAUL W. TIBBETS) - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 16711
Price: $300.00
ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS
14x11 black and white casual publicity photograph of Paul Tibbets and
fellow pilots after a practice loading exercise at the end of July 1945.
Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets, Tinian, July 1945". B/w,
14x11. Written on verso by Tibbets: "This photograph was
made/following a practice/loading exercise at the /end of July 1945 as we/were
preparing for the /Bombing of Hiroshima/Paul W. Tibbets". Paul W. Tibbets
was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that he named in honor of his
mother. At 2:30 A.M. on August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay left
Tinian Island's North Field for Special Bombing Mission number 13. In her bomb
bay was "Little Boy", the name given to the first atomic bomb used in warfare.
At 8:15 A.M., "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, creating massive
destruction and hastening the end of WWII. George R. Caron, the tail gunner
on the flight, was facing the rear of the B-29 and was the first to see the
mushroom cloud. He had been given a camera at the last moment and snapped a roll
of photographs as the mushroom cloud ascended. Caron's photographs of the
explosion were printed on millions of leaflets that were dropped over Japan the
next day. Image grainy. Fine condition.
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