ENOLA GAY CREW (PAUL W. TIBBETS) - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 148213
Price: $200.00
ENOLA GAY: PAUL W. TIBBETS
Paul W. Tibbets signs a Philatelic Envelope honoring the Golden
Anniversary of Aviation.
Philatelic Envelope signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", 6½x3½. First
Day Cover honoring the Golden Anniversary of Aviation, two 6-cent 50th
Anniversary of Powered Flight stamp affixed, postmarked Dayton, Ohio, May 29,
1953, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. United States Army Air Force Colonel Paul W.
Tibbets was responsible for the organization, training and command of the
world's first nuclear strike force. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Colonel
Tibbets piloted the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress named
after his mother, on its mission to drop the world's first atomic bomb on
Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb killed 66,000 and injured 69,000 people, not
including long-term victims of radiation exposure. However, the atomic bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 9) hastened the surrender of Japan,
ending WWII. Physicist Norman Ramsey, who went on to win a Nobel Prize
for development of the atomic clock, supervised the transfer of the atomic bomb
components from Los Alamos to Tinian, the island where the Enola Gay was
based. Fine condition.
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