Paul Tibbets
General Paul Tibbets died today at 92, what are your thoughts on the man?
He was a man doing his job. We have to consider the times in which he lived and worked. The Japanese were enemies then.
An invasion of Japan would have been even more costly
(to Americans and to the Japanese) than the atomic bomb dropped by Tibbets and his crew in August 1945. What is the “greater good”. Philosophy classes debate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (and Nagasaki) to this day.
Every World War II soldier I have spoken to about this – -
and I have spoken to dozens over the past 40 years – - –
has said the same thing – - they were glad the bomb was dropped so they did not have to die or be wounded invading Japan to end the war. Japanese resistance to invasion would have been fanatical. They were and are a very strong willed and determined people very capable of self sacrifice.
What would you have felt if YOUR life were at stake?
The madness of World War II had to end. A great shock was required. Paul Tibbets flew a plane – - – at a pivotal time in world history.
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