![]() Japan surrendered less than one month later, on Sept. The blast, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, destroyed a four square-mile area, and killing an estimated 70,000 people. TIBBETS (1915-2007) was the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, named after Tibbets' mother, that dropped the first atomic bomb (nicknamed "Little Boy") on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. ![]() According to the dust jacket, this is a "60th Anniversary Restoration Edition". ![]() Copy of Return of the Enola Gay by Paul W. B/w pages and dust jacket, 339 pages with 22 pages of b/w photos, 6¼x9¼x¾. Tibbets, signed by Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, and navigator Theodore Van Kirkīook signed "Dutch Van Kirk" and "Paul Tibbets" in blue ink on first page after fly leaf.
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