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(WORLD WAR II--ENOLA GAY.) Two Photographs, each Signed by the pilot of the Enola Gay, one additionally Signed by three other crew members, each showing the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Each inscribed in the image. Each 10x8 inches. Np, nd
Paul Tibbets. "Paul Tibbets, PILOT" Theodore J. Van Kirk. "Dutch Van Kirk / Navigator" Thomas Ferebee. "Tom Ferebee / Bombardier" Richard H. Nelson. "Richard Nelson / RADIO." These four men were the last surviving crewmen of the Enola Gay, and appeared jointly at least three times between 1995 and 1997 to discuss their role in the still controversial bombing, which killed more than 100,000 civilians. In their minds, there was no controversy. When asked at the United States Air Force Museum whether he would do it again, pilot Paul Tibbets replied "If under the same circumstances, without a shadow of a doubt. Nothing has ever unified the United States of America such as this" (Dayton Daily News, 4 August 1997). with--Two photographs, unsigned, each a reproduction of the same group portrait taken in the 1940s showing the Enola Gay crew. 8x10 inches or smaller. Nd.
