Among the most laudatory assessments is a piece (really a pair of blogs) by Oliver Kamm that quickly shot up to #1 at History News Network. In the days since his passing, Tibbets has been both lionized and vilified. And he spent the next 62 years fighting to defend the atomic bombings.
Throughout his adult life, he was a warrior. On November 1, Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., the man who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died at his Columbus, Ohio home at age 92. Defending the Indefensible: A Meditation on the Life of Hiroshima Pilot Paul Tibbets, Jr.
