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My opinion, for what its worth:

Tibbets was an honorable veteran who served his country with courage and commitment. He did not start the war. He did not invent the bomb he dropped. His most famous actions were the end result of the work over several years (decades?) by many tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of individuals in the allied effort working for the goal of developing a means to end of a very horrible and destructive world war. His life was changed that early August morning over Japan and he became a symbol and by some no longer a human being. On the contrary, he was very human and very courageous. I admire his statements and actions since the war's completion, although the incident in the 70's where he performed a re-enactment of the bombing may have been a very human slip in judgment giving ammunition to his detractors and those who refuse to accept that chapter in history for what it is and was.
 
Michael,
I agree with you. He did what he had to do. And it was the right decision at that time. I, for one, am grateful.
lou
 
I totally agree. There is an autographed photo of Tibbets in the K&C museum. For me he is a here who saved half-a-million Allied lives as well as millions of Japanese lives by taking 80,000. You do the math.
 
Sad news. I shook hands with him last year at the Reading, PA airshow. Along with the Enola *** mission, he piloted Eisenhower, Patton, Mark Clark, and flew in the first American bombing missions over Europe during his career.
 
Those bombs helped to end the war quicker and save lives. The Japanese only reaped the whirlwind. Too bad it couldn't have been used before the likes of Iwo and Okinawa. Might have saved more lives.
 
Well I think he was a hero. He must have felt some responsibity for all those deaths yet he took solace in the fact that he had done his duty. I think there is something really heroic in that. It is easy to criticise from the comfort of your armchair now. It is similar to Bomber Harris. I don't get the impression Tibbet enjoyed all these deaths. He sort of did waht he had to do and didn't complain about it or try to profit off it
Regards
Damian
 
I have to go along with the majority view here. I too firmly believe that the dropping of both bombs was completely justified. Too bad if you were one of the 80,000 victims like, but would they have survived an American invasion of the home islands anyway? Who knows.
I've been watching a lot of the BBC's WWII and the World at War documentary series lately.....and according to the programmes, there were nutters in the Japanese military who wanted to carry on with the war even after Nagasaki...???

H
 
No doubt about it,it had to be done.I don't think he revelled in the deaths at all.He had a job to do and he did it.It saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the long run.And of course whilst no civilian deserves the horrible death that many suffered, Japan has to bear responsibillity for its cowardly attack on Pearl Harbour.As someone said above, they reaped the whirlwind,much the same as Germany did.

Rob
 
Rob said:
No doubt about it,it had to be done.I don't think he revelled in the deaths at all.He had a job to do and he did it.It saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the long run.And of course whilst no civilian deserves the horrible death that many suffered, Japan has to bear responsibillity for its cowardly attack on Pearl Harbour.As someone said above, they reaped the whirlwind,much the same as Germany did.

Rob
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Rob I could not agree more.
 
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