TO those who ask, I quickly reply, 'Not in the least': (Paul W. Likewise, I have been asked in letters and to my face if I was not conscious stricken for the loss of life I caused by dropping the first atomic bomb. The intervening years has brought me many letters and personal contacts with individuals who maintain that they would not be alive if it had not been for what I did. In fact, I viewed my mission as one to save lives rather than take them. To me it mean putting an end to the fighting and the consequent loss of lives. 'On Augas the Enola Gay approached the Japanese city of Hiroshima, I fervently hoped for success in the first use of a nuclear type weapon. and his wife, Enola Gay Tibbets. Albury, Co-Pilot, 'The Great Artiste' Hiroshima 8-6-45, Bockscar, Nagasaki 8-9-45.' Fine in a fine dust jacket. was born in Quincy, Illinois, on 23 February 1915, the son of Paul Warfield Tibbets Sr. Presentation copy, signed by Tibbets and five fellow American WWII aviators, 'Paul Tibbets', 'Dutch Van Kirk', 'Morris Jeppson, Weapon Test Officer, Enola Gay Mission', 'Jack Widowsky, Navigator - 'Top Secret'', 'Russ Gackenbach, Nav - Necessary Evil, Hiroshima, 6 Aug. Tibbets 22 Paperback 5 offers from 19.99 Winning research skills Nancy P Johnson Paperback 1 offer from 3. Tibbets 21 Hardcover 19 offers from 34.68 Flight of the Enola Gay Paul W. First edition of Tibbets' account of the bombing of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Norman Polmar 15 Paperback 62 offers from 1.52 The Tibbets Story Paul W.