Pilot of Enola Gay Dies at Age 92

Paul Tibbets has died.

Then Col. Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola Gay when the world's first nuclear bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.


Tibbets never worried whether the use of the Bomb was the right thing or the wrong thing. He always felt that it was worth the lives saved in preventing a bloody invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. He said he never lost a night's sleep over it because it saved more lives than it took.


But that does not mean that Tibbets wasn't aware of the
controversy surrounding his most famous mission. He has stated that he does not want a funeral or headstone because he did not want to attract protestors