6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted off from the island of Tinian carrying a uranium atomic bomb assembled under extraordinary secrecy in the vast endeavor known as the Manhattan Project.
Signed limited edition of Tibbets’ revised autobiography, highlighting his core role in piloting the Enola Gay, which dropped the uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima and launched the nuclear age, number 1440 of 1500 copies signed by Tibbets, bombadier Ferebee, navigator Van Kirk and radio operator Nelson, this copy additionally inscribed on the photographic page opposite the limitation page, “For Karl Zimmer with Best Regards, Paul Tibbets, 8-26-00,” illustrated with 23 pages of black-and-white photogravures. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Columbus, Ohio: Mid Coast Marketing, 1998.
“FOR KARL ZIMMER WITH BEST REGARDS, PAUL TIBBETS, 8-26-00”: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF TIBBETS’ RETURN OF THE ENOLA GAY, SIGNED BY TIBBETS, FEREBEE, VAN KIRK AND NELSON, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED AND DATED “8-26-00” BY TIBBETS
