DOCUMENT ***Signed***

Tibbets, Paul and Thomas Ferebee and George Caron

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Paul Tibbets check dated 22 Feb 1994 from Bank One for $205.00 made out to WPAFB-GUN CLUB. Check has been completely made out and signed by General Tibbets in blue ink and is in FINE condition. WPAFB is Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. Thomas Ferebee check dated 9/09/98 from Nations Bank for $29.55 made out to Time Warner. Check has been completely made out and signed by Colonel Ferebee in back ink and is FINE condition. George Caron check dated Sept 01, 1987 from WBank Western for $29.57 and made out to Crestview Water District.The check has been completely made out and signed by George Caron in blue ink and is in FINE condition. On August 6th, 1945 Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, of the 509th Bomber Group and pilot of the Enola Gay, received his orders and in the early morning hours roared down a runway bound for Hiroshima. The B-29 Superfortress lifted off Tinian Island at 2:45AM for the six and one half hour flight to Hiroshima. At 31,600 feet, with a ground speed of 328 mph, a bomb weighing 9,700 pounds, containing 137.5 pounds of Uranium 235 was released. The firebomb that erupted was equivalent of thirteen thousand tons of TNT and thousands of degrees hotter than the surface of the sun. It melted granite and vaporized people leaving only their shadows on the few remaining buildings left standing in the city after the blast. Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 ? 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the pilot who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He initially sought a career in medicine, but the memory of a ride in a barnstormer airplane never left him. He joined the U.S. Air Corps and flew combat missions in Europe during World War II. On August 6, 1945, he piloted the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands, forcing the surrender of Japan and ending World War II. He retired from the military in 1966 and became president of Executive Jet Aviation. Thomas W. Ferebee (November 9, 1918 ? March 16, 2000) was the bombardier aboard the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, who dropped the atomic bomb, "Little Boy", on Hiroshima in 1945. Technical Sergeant George Robert "Bob" Caron (October 31, 1919 ? June 3, 1995) was the tail gunner, the only defender of the twelve crewmen, aboard the B-29 Enola Gay during the historic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Facing the rear of the B-29, his vantage point made him the first man to witness the cataclysmic growth of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. The photographs shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included in the sale. Seller Inventory # 002927

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Title: DOCUMENT ***Signed***

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)