The next interviewee is Commander Frederick Ashworth, who was part of the crew that dropped the second atom bomb on Nagasaki. Tibbets retired from the Air Force in 1966 and died in 2007, at 92. The Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress Bomber, was responsible for dropping the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. Enola Gay Crew (Theodore Van Kirk) - Autographed Signed Photograph. (23 February 1915 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Sweeney and his Bocks Car crew dropped the second atomic bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki. Last surviving member of Enola Gay crew to drop atomic bomb on. That day, when one would have expected all attention to be focused on the Nagasaki strike, yet another ceremony took place to honor Tibbets and the crew of the Enola Gay. Originally scheduled for August 11, 1945, the mission was advanced to August 9 due to weather concerns. WW2 photos show crew of the Enola Gay B-29 bomber returning after. The Nagasaki mission couldnt have been more different. The Colonel then describes his experiences in a very calm way. Crew,Atomic Bomb plane,military,Enola Gay,Dave Davis,ACME,Mariana. The debate over how the war was won has continued. The clip opens with an interview with Colonel Paul Tebbits, the officer in charge of the bomb group that dropped the Hiroshima Bomb. However, each event is experienced one person at a time, and each person has an individual story to tell. War affects governments and groups of people on such a large scale that it can be overwhelming. World War II was the largest human-made catastrophe in history, affecting almost every country in the world and touching the lives of every family in the United States. I think we saved thousands and thousands of lives." - Vince Ortman.
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We would have had to kill off all the Japanese, and there would have been a lot of Americans killed in the meantime. The Japanese were never going to give up unless we had something like that. "I thought at the time and I still do, that we saved an awful lot of lives. (Germany, of course, had surrendered months earlier.) Nebraskans celebrated V-J Day wholeheartedly on August 15. Notice a space has been left for the name of the city. Excerpt from announcing the dropping of the atomic bomb.