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Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« on: November 01, 2007, 04:58:42 PM »
Paul Tibbets, who was the pilot of the Enola Gay (named after his mother) that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, died today in his home in Columbus Ohio.

He insisted that there be no service, and no headstone fearing that it would become a site of protest. 

He inssted to his death, that dropping the bomb was the right thing to do.

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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2007, 05:34:06 PM »
I saw that not that many WW2 vets around any more some but fewer every year :'(  He lived a long life and saw many things in his 92 years.  I know my uncle was thankful for what he did because Japan was his next stop in his island hopping tour around the Pacific
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2007, 05:39:03 PM »
Quote from: parts on November 01, 2007, 05:34:06 PM
I saw that not that many WW2 vets around any more some but fewer every year :'( 

Yeah, I wonder why that is. I don't know ANY WWI or ACW vets.
I guess war isn't good for people.
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2007, 06:08:02 PM »
Fucking people. Can you imagine what would've happened if we'd waited until Japan developed the bomb as well?
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2007, 06:08:34 PM »
Quote from: Ass Fairy2 on November 01, 2007, 05:39:03 PM
Quote from: parts on November 01, 2007, 05:34:06 PM
I saw that not that many WW2 vets around any more some but fewer every year :'( 

Yeah, I wonder why that is. I don't know ANY WWI or ACW vets.
I guess war isn't good for people.
Yes war is bad for people but not knowing how bad it really is is even worse
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2007, 06:09:40 PM »
Quote from: Zeno Cosini on November 01, 2007, 06:08:02 PM
Fucking people. Can you imagine what would've happened if we'd waited until Japan developed the bomb as well?

Yes all out nuclear war a lot of us probably would not be here today
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2007, 06:12:23 PM »
Oh come on. Japan was prostrate.
The only need for the bomb was
to end things more quickly - to keep
the USSR from getting too many
spoils.

Probably kept more Japanese alive
to have dropped it, than if we had
simply waited them out.
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2007, 06:16:10 PM »
Quote from: Ass Fairy2 on November 01, 2007, 06:12:23 PM
Oh come on. Japan was prostrate.
The only need for the bomb was
to end things more quickly - to keep
the USSR from getting too many
spoils.

That's what people say. But if that's true, why didn't they surrender after the first bombing, if they were that ready? Why not after the second?
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2007, 06:20:05 PM »
No proof that we had more.
We got lucky, in a sense.

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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2007, 06:25:58 PM »
Meh. I don't buy it. If they were ready to surrender, they wouldn't have used that "lack of proof" as a reason to not do so. What proof did they have that we DIDN'T have more?
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2007, 06:33:17 PM »
It was a complex political situation.
The people in charge COULDN'T
surrender, without losing face.

And, I'm not saying that they would
have toppled in any quick period of time.
Just that a long term siege would have
worked. The Soviets would've invaded though.
Thus, the options were a US invasion, or
the bombs, OR accepting the surrender
which had been tendered.

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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2007, 06:37:09 PM »
But I'm not seeing how this makes the prospective outcome of both us and them having the bomb any less scary.
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2007, 06:39:37 PM »
Quote from: Zeno Cosini on November 01, 2007, 06:37:09 PM
But I'm not seeing how this makes the prospective outcome of both us and them having the bomb any less scary.

Where do you get the idea that Japan was
going to develop the bomb? Or the means
to deliver it? Their navy was destroyed. The
airforce, damned near so.
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2007, 06:46:37 PM »
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Re: Paul Tibbets, son of Enola Gay, dies at 92
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2007, 06:50:25 PM »
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Well, that was an informative response.
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