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Paul Tibbets, WWII commander of infamous B-29, requested no headstone.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21578185/

May he rest in peace and may the demons that haunted him all his life finally be vanquished.

Paul Tibbets, WWII commander of infamous B-29, requested no headstone.

Very sad, all because I suspect some uneducated lunatic would go and desecrate it...

Romulus if you read the BBC News article I posted http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1193936763 he says he never had any problems or sleepless nights.

Romulus if you read the BBC News article I posted http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1193936763 he says he never had any problems or sleepless nights.

I can say the same thing, but it wouldn't be the truth. It would be my military training that would make me not want to show any weakness or any regrets associated with my service. You cannot be involved with death as in war w/o it effecting you in some way or another.

He may not have regretted the role he played in history because it was his duty to follow orders. That and no one at the time had any knowledge of what would happen. All they had was theory and some of the theorists at the time said a detonation of such a weapon could possibly vaporized the atmosphere. They still went ahead with the tests and deployment. Not until after the fact did they know what the weapon was fully capable of.

Sorry, didn't see your post....

I figured anything like this would be in the history section and didn't look in Real Aviation....

I don't get this...He killed 80,000 people and had no regrets? Humanity has been lost IMO...Not my cup of tea...I shall not say anything beyond this...

I don't get this...He killed 80,000 people and had no regrets? Humanity has been lost IMO...Not my cup of tea...I shall not say anything beyond this...

[color=#003300]If Romulus hadn't posted this I would have (I've had other things to do in my own little world of chaos); my source was different but it's essentially the same. Tibbets never said he had no regrets in respect to the deaths:

I don't get this...He killed 80,000 people and had no regrets?

No, because with this act, and the bombing of Nagasaki a few days after, Japan did not need to be invaded, no more Japanese cities needed to be razed to the ground, and many hundreds of thousands of lives, maybe millions were saved in defeating a nation that believed in fighting to the death.

Also it showed how so destructive atomic weapons could be that for the 45 years following in the cold war, no one eventually dared use a nuclear weapon in anger.

Seems a good reason not to have any regrets?

Well, if you talking about who's the bad guy, try FDR, its been said that he know the Japs where coming!

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