Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles
BRIGADIER GENERAL PAUL W. TIBBETS
Born: February 23, 1915 in Quincy, Illinois
Died: November 1, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio
Died: November 1, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio
Paul W. Tibbets (1915-2007) was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, named after Tibbets' mother, that dropped the first atomic bomb (nicknamed "Little Boy") on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. The blast, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, destroyed a four square-mile area, and killing an estimated 70,000 people. Japan surrendered less than one month later, on Sept. 2, 1945). Tibbets was a colonel when Hiroshima was destroyed and became a technical adviser on the United States' nuclear bomb tests. He retired a brigadier general in 1966 and worked in commercial aviation until 1986.
2001-Heaven-on-Earth (in person), 1999-The-American-Experience (in person), 1995-Trinity-and-Beyond:-The-Atomic-Bomb-Movie (Other), 2005-The-Last-Days-of-World-War-II (Other), 2002-Price-for-Peace (in person), 2005-X-Day:-The-Invasion-of-Japan (Other), 1995-Enola-Gay-and-the-Atomic-Bombing-of-Japan (Other), 2005-Hiroshima (in person), 2002-Modern-Marvels (in person), 2001-Moments-of-Truth-with-Stephen-Ambrose (in person), 1995-Men-Who-Brought-the-Dawn (in person), 1974-The-World-at-War (in person), 2012-Missions-That-Changed-the-War (Other), 2011-Democracy-Now! (Other), 1982-The-Atomic-Cafe (Other), 1962-V-Was-for-Victory (Other)
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETTS Paul Tibbetts sends an autograph note of thanks. Autograph Note signed: "PW", 1p, 3½x3½. In full: "Thanks for the/History by/Norman Ramsey". United States Army Air Force Colonel Paul W.Sale Price $108.00
$120.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS. Photograph inscribed and signed: "For Pauline Valentine/with best wishes/Paul W. Tibbets". Color, 4x5. US Army Air Force Colonel Paul W. Tibbets was responsible for the organization, training and command of the world's first nuclear strike force.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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PAUL W. TIBBETS The Enola Gay pilot fills out and signs a check for $26.78 to Columbia Gas. Check signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", 6x2¾. Columbus, Ohio, 1990 June 15. Drawn on his personal account at Bank One, Columbus, Ohio, payable to "Columbia Gas" for $26.78. Memo: "#11712869 001 5".Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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ATOMIC BOMB. ENOLA GAY: PAUL W. TIBBETS Paul W. Tibbets fills out and signs a check to pay the Air Force Association $60.00 to renew for three years. Check filled out and signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", 6x2¾. Columbus, Ohio, 1992 November 25.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS. Photograph signed: "Paul Tibbets/Pilot - Enola Gay". B/w, 10x8. Depicts the devastation at Hiroshima, Japan after the dropping of the first atomic bomb used in warfare. Colonel Paul W.Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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This historic color photograph, taken from the air, is of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima moments after the first atomic bombing in history. It's signed by Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the Hiroshima bomb nicknamed "Little Boy".Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS Black and white publicity photograph of Paul W. Tibbets waving inside a cockpit of a plane. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets". B/w, 10x8 overall, image 9½x6¾ (one surface). Tibbets is pictured in the cockpit of the Enola Gay, the bomber he named after his mother.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS Black and white publicity crew photograph in front of The Enola Gay. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets". B/w, 10x8. Signed by the pilot of the modified B-29 that dropped the world's first atomic bomb used in war. United States Army Air Force Colonel Paul W.Sale Price $337.50
$375.00
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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.Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS Black and white publicity photograph of the plane Enola Gay on the tarmac at a distance at night. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets" B/w, 10x8. Picture of the Enola Gay, the modified B-29 that dropped the world's first atomic bomb used in war.Sale Price $234.00
$260.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS Black and white publicity photograph of the ground crew in front of The Enola Gay. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets". B/w, 10x8. Signed by the pilot of the modified B-29 that dropped the world's first atomic bomb used in war. United States Army Air Force Colonel Paul W.Sale Price $234.00
$260.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS Black and white publicity photograph of Paul Tibbets in his dress uniform. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets". B/w, 8x10. US Army Air Force Colonel Paul W. Tibbets was responsible for the organization, training and command of the world's first nuclear strike force.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS Black and white publicity photograph of the Enola Gay landing. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets". B/w, 10x8 overall, image 6x4 (one surface). 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.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS Black and white publicity photograph of Paul Tibbets in his dress uniform. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets". B/w, 8x10. US Army Air Force Colonel Paul W. Tibbets was responsible for the organization, training and command of the world's first nuclear strike force.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS Older image, posed by the wheel of a B-29, in uniform of the Confederate Air Force Photograph signed: "Paul Tibbets". Color, 8x10. Paul W. TibbetsSale Price $382.50
$425.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS Photo of the B-29 which dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, shown from the rear and signed by its pilot, Captain Paul Tibbets Photograph signed: "Paul Tibbets, Pilot/6 Aug. 1945". B/w, 10x8. Paul W.Sale Price $252.00
$280.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL TIBBETS B/w photo of the Enola Gay, signed "Paul Tibbets, Pilot B29 Enola Gay" in 2004 by Tibbets. Tibbets also signed this photo with the date of the first use of the atomic bomb in warfare: "6 Aug. 1945". Annotated photograph signed "Paul Tibbets, Pilot B29 Enola Gay/6 Aug.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS, THEODORE VAN KIRKB/w photo of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, with pilot Paul Tibbets standing near the open front wheel well! Photograph signed "Paul Tibbets, PILOT/ 6 Aug.Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS Black and white publicity photograph of the bomb detonated over Nagasaki. Photograph signed: "Paul W. Tibbets/8-18-87" B/w, 10½x8 overall, image 9½x6½ (one surface). Captioned at bottom margin. Picture of the "Fat Man', the world's first atomic bomb used in war.Sale Price $234.00
$260.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS, JR., THEODORE VAN KIRK and THOMAS FEREBEE Photograph signed: "Theodore J Van Kirk/Navigator", "Paul W. Tibbets/Pilot" and "Thomas W. Ferebee/Bombardier". B/w, 9¼x7¼. Just before 3 a.m.Sale Price $1,020.00
$1,200.00
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ENOLA GAY NAVIGATOR'S LOG Color 18x24 printed reproduction of the "Navigator's Log of the 'Enola Gay'". Printed Reproduction headed: "Navigator's Log of the 'Enola Gay'" for August 6, 1945. Color, 18x24. Signed in ink at lower margin: "Paul W. Tibbets" (Pilot), "Thomas W.Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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Signed copy of 509th Composite Group. This is a 2002 copy of the group's pictorial history, "written and published by and for the members of the 509th Composite Group" in 1945. The 509 th Composite Group was deployed in order to drop the first atomic bombs on Japan during World War II; Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A rare insider's look at one of the most secretive and expensive military projects of the war.Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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PAUL W. TIBBETS and THEODORE VAN KIRK Copy of Return of the Enola Gay by Paul W. Tibbets, signed by Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, and navigator Theodore Van Kirk Book signed "Dutch Van Kirk" and "Paul Tibbets" in blue ink on first page after fly leaf.Sale Price $510.00
$600.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS Check endorsed by the pilot of the Enola Gay. Check endorsed: "Deposit to account/[numbers written]/Paul W. Tibbets", 8¼x3. Madeira Beach, Florida, 1992 December 2. Check No. 2091, drawn on the account of J F F Company, Inc at the First Florida Bank, payable to Cash for $201.Sale Price $180.00
$200.00
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PAUL TIBBETS Limited edition commemorative cachet showing a B-29 of the 509th Composite Group taxiing on the runway on Tinian on August 6, 1945. Commemorative Cachet signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", 7x4½.Sale Price $216.00
$240.00
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ENOLA GAY: PAUL W. TIBBETS (WWII) Paul W. Tibbets signs a Commemorative Envelope honoring Kagoshima Space Center University of Tokyo. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", 6½x3½.Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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ENOLA GAY: PAUL W. TIBBETS Paul W. Tibbets signs a British commemorative envelope for the introduction of Boeing B-29, renamed The Washington 1, to the Royal Air Force. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", 7½x4½.Sale Price $126.00
$140.00
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ENOLA GAY: PAUL W. TIBBETS Paul W. Tibbets signs a Japanese commemorative envelope. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Paul W. Tibbets Jr./B-Gen USAF", 6½x3¾. Japanese commemorative envelope postmarked Frankfurt, Tokyo. United States Army Air Force Colonel Paul W.Sale Price $108.00
$120.00
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G. LEONARD CHESHIRE and PAUL W. TIBBETS. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Leonard Cheshire" and "Paul W. Tibbets", 7½x4½. British commemorative envelope postmarked Jersey, April 1, 1986, the 70th anniversary of No. 38 Squadron of the Royal Air Force.Sale Price $234.00
$260.00
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ENOLA GAY CREW: PAUL W. TIBBETS, MORRIS JEPPSON and THEODORE VAN KIRK All three sign an envelope observing the 25th anniversary of Japan's surrender. Commemorative Envelope signed: "Paul W. Tibbets", "Dutch Van Kirk/Navigator - Enola Gay/Hiroshima - 6 Aug 1945", "Morris R.Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
