ENOLA GAY CREW (PAUL W. TIBBETS) - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 46275
Price: $200.00
ENOLA GAY: PAUL W. TIBBETS
Paul W. Tibbets signs a Philatelic Envelope honoring the 25¢ Air Mail
Postage Stamp.
Philatelic Envelope signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", 6½x3½. First
Day Cover honoring the 25¢ Air Mail Postage Stamp, 25-cent Air Mail stamp
affixed, postmarked San Francisco, California, April 22, 1960, 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. Typed mailing address
at lower right. Lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.
Following an offer submission, users will be contacted at their account email address within 48 hours. Our response will be to accept your offer, decline your offer, or send you a final counteroffer. All offers can be viewed within the "Offer Review" area of your HistoryForSale account. Please review the Make Offer Terms prior to submitting an offer.
If you have not received an offer acceptance or counter-offer email within 24-hours please check your spam/junk email folder.