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Buckeye Aviation Book Company, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. ***Signed by the Author*** A very good softcover in printed wraps. 8vo Signed by Paul Tibbets pilot of the Enola Gay on an endpaper with a group photo. Inscription says "In memory of John Elden Findley 9-7-1991."Text is clean and free of marks or underling. Includes b&w photos and an index. 316 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. First hand account from pilot of the bomber Enola Gay and dropping the Atom Bomb.. The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets, who selected the aircraft while it was still on the assembly line. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance…
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