Wow. I fell victim to the rumor that Tibbets committed suicide decades ago and had no idea he was still around.
Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier on the Hiroshima flight passed back in 2000. There’s a historical marker at the farmhouse where he grew up out in the sticks of the NC northwest piedmont.
The captain of the ship, USS Indianapolis, that delivered the first A-bomb to Tinian, committed suicide a few years after being made the scapegoat for the then US Navy policy of not listing and following up on ships that were “over due” (due to security concerns).