Replies

The man who works in the tobacco shop at our local supermarket, he is 83/84 years old. He served in the Army in World War II and was stationed at Tinian and remembers watching them loading something secret aboard the Enoly Gay, he was within a couple hundred feet of the action. He also watched the plane take off. When Tibbets returned, he was bartender that night in the offcier's club and remember serving a drink to Tibbets himself and he remembers Tibbets telling him, "what have we done?" since the atom bomb was new at the time. I find it neat to talk to somene who actually witnessed one of the most important events in history.

My physics teacher was being trained to fly B-24's and he was on his way over to the pacific in his B-24 when he got word that the atomic bombs wwere dropped and Japan surrendered. He is 87/88, still flies his own plane and teaches his great grandkids on how to drive.

RIP Col. Tibbets