Return Of The Enola Gay By Paul Tibbets (SIGNED By Pilot & Crew - 1258 Of 1500)
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Return of the Enola Gay by Paul W. Tibbets, Col., Retired. This first edition is signed By The Pilot and 3 Crew Members - #1258 of 1500 - comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Condition is "Like New" - there are no known flaws. See pictures. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.This is a Paul Tibbets Book, published by the author and distributed by Mid-Coast Marketing, Columbus, Ohio, 1998. It has 339 pages. It is illustrated with 23 pages of black-and-white photogravures.This special collec...tor's edition is signed by Col. Paul Tibbets (the pilot), Maj. Thomas W. Ferebee (bombardier), Pfc. Richard H. Nelson (radio operator), and Capt. Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk (navigator) and is # 1, 258 of 1, 500 signed copies. A SCARCE FEW copies of this book singed by only one or two of the crew members can be found for sale upwards of $160!Copies signed by all four crew members are being offered for as much as $875! I am offering this exceptional copy signed by all four Enola Gay crew members for only $225 in the US (no S&H fees).
About the BookTibbets’ autobiography highlights his core role in piloting the Enola Gay, which dropped the uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima and launched the nuclear age. “Col Tibbetts was solely responsible for the organization, training, and command of the world’s first nuclear strike force. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Col. Tibet’s flew the Enola Gay into the future by dropping the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.”“In the hours before dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted off from the island of Tinian carrying a uranium atomic bomb assembled under extraordinary secrecy in the vast endeavor known as the Manhattan Project. Six and a half hours later, under clear skies, then-Colonel Tibbets, of the Army Air Forces, guided the four-engine plane he had named in honor of his mother toward the bomb’s aiming point, the T-shaped Aioi Bridge in the center of Hiroshima, the site of an important Japanese army headquarters. At 8:15 a.m. local time, the bomb known to its creators as Little Boy dropped free at an altitude of 31, 000 feet. Forty-three seconds later, at 1, 890 feet above ground zero, it exploded in a nuclear inferno” (New York Times).
Topics: Aviation Atomic Bomb Nuclear War Hiroshima Army Air Force Bomber North Africa Europe Word War II World War 2 WWII WW2 Pilot
About the BookTibbets’ autobiography highlights his core role in piloting the Enola Gay, which dropped the uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima and launched the nuclear age. “Col Tibbetts was solely responsible for the organization, training, and command of the world’s first nuclear strike force. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Col. Tibet’s flew the Enola Gay into the future by dropping the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.”“In the hours before dawn on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted off from the island of Tinian carrying a uranium atomic bomb assembled under extraordinary secrecy in the vast endeavor known as the Manhattan Project. Six and a half hours later, under clear skies, then-Colonel Tibbets, of the Army Air Forces, guided the four-engine plane he had named in honor of his mother toward the bomb’s aiming point, the T-shaped Aioi Bridge in the center of Hiroshima, the site of an important Japanese army headquarters. At 8:15 a.m. local time, the bomb known to its creators as Little Boy dropped free at an altitude of 31, 000 feet. Forty-three seconds later, at 1, 890 feet above ground zero, it exploded in a nuclear inferno” (New York Times).
Topics: Aviation Atomic Bomb Nuclear War Hiroshima Army Air Force Bomber North Africa Europe Word War II World War 2 WWII WW2 Pilot
