Tibbets was a colonel when Hiroshima was destroyed and became a technical adviser on the United States' nuclear bomb tests.
Japan surrendered less than one month later, on Sept. The blast, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, destroyed a four square-mile area, and killing an estimated 70,000 people. TIBBETS (1915-2007, born in Quincy, Illinois), born George Robert Caron, 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. Spaatz became the first Chief of Staff of the independent U. bombing force in Germany (1944) and Japan (1945). Air Force in Europe, CARL SPAATZ (1891-1974, born in Boyertown, Pennsylvania) initiated daylight bombing of German-occupied Europe in 1942. Tibbets-Pilot', 'Theodore J Van Kirk/Navigation' and 'Thomas Ferebee/Bombadier', all in blue ink. Tibbets, Thomas Ferebee and Theodore Van Kirk Poem entitled 'The Flyer's Prayer', signed in blue ink by three members of the Enola Gay: Paul W.
