The new wave of controversy about Hiroshima “got me roused up,” Tibbets told the Palm Beach Post in 2001. He had it right on America’s schools and distorted history:Īmerican Hero Paul Tibbets After Historic Hiroshima Mission And the military apologized to the Japanese after Tibbets re-enacted his important flight. Sadly, in later life, the State Department treated him with dishonor when India criticized his role in saving the world from Axis forces. He was bright and had just the right amount of bravado to save America. And he flew some of the first bombing missions against the Nazis and their allies. And he wasn’t just the pilot–he basically planned the whole mission. He saved the Western world and his life had meaning for all of us, even though most do not know his name. Retired Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, Jr.–the heroic American serviceman who did to Hiroshima what we should have already done to Tehran–died, yesterday, at the age of 92 in Ohio.
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