You’ve got to leave the moral issue out of it. I don’t care whether you’re dropping atom bombs, or whether you’re dropping 100-pound bombs, or you’re shooting a rifle. Morality, there is no such thing in warfare.
Two hours before the crew of Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island 40 years ago today for their historic flight to drop an atomic bomb on. The Hiroshima bombardment killed less people than the. Please disable your ad blocker to view the video content. It was the plane named after Paul Tibbets’ mother, Enola Gay, that took off with Paul Tibbets as the crew chief of the 509th Composite. A B-29 took off from Andersen Air Force Base around 2 o’clock in the morning on August 6. I was instructed to perform a military mission to drop the bomb and that was the thing that I was going to do to the best of my ability. Paul Tibbets confessed that he had never any problems to sleep after dropping the bomb over Hiroshima. The B-29 flew over the bomb loading pit and then taxied to Runway Able on the North Field runway on August 5, 1945. Tibbets added, “I made up my mind then that the morality of dropping that bomb was not my business. On 6 November 1945, Lewis flew the Enola Gay back to the United States, arriving at the 509ths new base at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico, on 8 November. I’m supposed to be a bomber pilot and destroy a target. So, I thought, you know, I’m just like that if I get to thinking about some innocent person getting hit on the ground. They assumed the symptoms of the patients and it destroyed their ability to render medical necessities. That is, they were selling legalized drugs for drug houses and so forth and so on, because they couldn’t practice medicine due to the fact that they had too much sympathy for their patients. Nancy Nelson, 88, the widow of Richard Nelson, who was a radioman on the Enola Gay, the Army plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II, sits in a room devoted to.
And he was telling me about previous doctors, some that had been classmates of his, who were drug salesmen. “Well, then I got a thought that I had engendered and encountered for the first time in Cincinnati when I was going to medical school. “The first time I dropped bombs on a target over there, … I said to myself, ‘People are getting killed down there that don’t have any business getting killed. The B-29 chosen for the momentous mission, with the name Enola Gay in large letters on its nose, took off in pre-dawn darkness from the U.S. In the 1989 interview, Tibbets also spoke of a lesson he learned in Cincinnati about doing his job: