Aug. 6th, 1945

Aug. 6th, 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.
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Paul Tibbets, dies at 92

Paul Tibbets pilot who bombed Hiroshima

To the end of his days, Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. believed that dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a justifiable means of shortening World War II and preserving the lives of hundreds of thousands of American servicemen who military experts said might have died in a final Allied invasion of Japan.

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Tibbets was one of my heroes.
Jack