Thank you, Colonel Tibbets

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and crew.

You saved countless American lives with your dedication and courage.

I want all to remember.

God Bless You
 
I have to give a second thank you to Mr. Tibbetts. Thank you Texashooter
for jogging my memory as to what happened today in 1945. My father fought
in the south pacific in WWII. He is gone now but I am happy to say that he
made it home and he was able to be a very good father to me.
Thanks to Col. Tibbetts and crew and also all of the men that fought for our
country in WWII. We thank you for all that you have done.
 
My Father was a US Marine in WWII. He was studying a map of japan on August 6, 1945. He had already been on Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima. His luck very likely would have run out in japan.

Thank you Col. Tibbets, your crew, and the crew of "Bock's Car", the B29 that dropped the Nagasaki bomb,


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V-J Day

Thank all of them who worked on the Manhattan Project.

I've had a pic of the Trinity Test at 25 milliseconds after detonation as my wallpaper at work since mid-July.

People forget the barbarity and fanaticism of such a supposedly civilized country in establishing "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."

I am tired of hearing about how we shouldn't have dropped the bombs.

"V-J Day? What's that?"

"Mitsubishi A6M2? What's that? A new car model? Can I park it easily at the mall?"

Here's a pic my Pop took from our upstairs bedroom window of the local American Legion Post marching by on the first V-J Day. (Ozone Park NY, 1945.) Pop built Liberty Ships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard throughout the war.
 

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Its amazing how the media tries to guilt trip Americans for choosing to end the war early and save thousands of lives. :banghead: They forget that it was one of the most important events of the 20th century. Thanks to everyone who was involved.
 
I am tired of hearing about how we shouldn't have dropped the bombs.
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As a Cold Warrior, I'm tired of hearing about all the horrible things we did over the past 50 years and how it turned the "downtrodden people" of the Third World against us. We did what we did so mankind could have a future. For better or worse, we're still here to talk about it. Consider the alternatives...

Hats off to Col. Tibbets and the men of the 509th.
 
Oh, Mods, please don't close this thread...

as it really is germane, the Little Boy weapon having been a gun-type bomb.

Oh, and my Dad was at Saipan for that. He had turned down an opportunity to go home aboard USS Indianapolis. I am glad he did so, or I might not exist. All things considered, I think I'd rather exist, than not.
 
Col. Tibbets lives in the Columbus area and normally the local rag will have something but I haven't seen anything this year. My father was in the Pacific from the beginning as a combat engineer and worked on the Tinian airfield. He remarked once that when the bombs were dropped his unit was training for the invasion of Japan and no one expected to come home. Like many of that generation, Col. Tibbets and his crew did their job with no expectations - where did that aspect of our national culture disappear to?
 
In 1945 my dad was in the Philippines cleaning out holdouts and snipers when his unit got the word the A bomb had been dropped, many people today forget how fanatical an enemy the Japanese warriors and government were at that time in using everything from death marches and forced labor camps to human wave attacks and eventually kamikazes.
The whole Japanese nation had been training and preparing to repel any invasion there were literally tons of war materials and weapons stashed away to face the allies if and when they invaded and had we done so it would have been a much bloodier fight than any of the islands we had taken before.
From what I understand had we invaded all POW's Japan held would have been executed rather than risk being liberated by our forces.
After the second bomb my dads orders were changed from training to invade Japan to one of occupation duty and the dismantling of the war materials and arms that had been stockpiled.
Horrible as both atomic bombs were they forced an end to the daily carnage and suffering and brought the bloodiest war in human history to a close.
My thanks go out to ALL Veterans both young and old, freedom is not free it is priceless having been paid for in untold blood sweat and tears.
 
Thank you, Colonel Tibbets.

The planned invasion of Japan was expected to have such high losses that the leading divisions were not figured into the second days plans. They saved a lot of lives.
 
My dad was a flex gunner on a B29 on Tinian when the bombs were delivered.There was a lot of security, but he saw plenty.Truly the greatest generation.Yes we need to remember history as it really happened, not as some have rewritten it.Tibbets and crew are good representitives of the many WWII heros and everyday grunts.
 
Given the mass suicide of Japanese civilians in Okinawa, the surrender prompted by the atomic bombs saved a lot more Japanese lives than Americans.

The use of the atomic bombs may be an ugly choice in revisionist retrospect, but it saved millions on both sides.
 
Thank you, Colonel Tibbets

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and crew.

You saved countless American lives with your dedication and courage.

I want all to remember.

God Bless You
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The Japanese are the ones who REALLY ought to be thanking him. He and the crew of Bock's Car as well, saved Japan as a nation.

If we'd had to invade Japan, if you wanted to meet an ethnic Japanese, you'd have had to go to California or Brazil. They were definitely in the express lane for the "Max Mad" prequel.
 
One thing people fail to relies is the social and economic impact on Japan. Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was probably the single greatest event in Japanese's history. If the allies had to invade Japan, Russia would have probably been very involved. Not even counting the hundreds of thousands of Japanese's lives it saved, if the Russians had been part of the invasion they would have been part of the occupation as well. Japan would probably be similar to Korea right now, and how Berlin was for half a century. The capitalistic half would be doing well, but the communist half would be living in squaller and poverty just like North Korea.

Every Japanese citizen should be thankful everyday the nuclear bomb was invented, if not their country would be a very different place.
 
Thank you Colonel, for giving me my step-father.

USMC, 6 Division, 15th Marines, HQ Company, Okinawa. (and Saipan, and Guadalcanal, and a few others)
 
Let's not forget Harry Truman who had the cojones to order the mission. Col Tibbets and crew did the job, but would have had no job if the order did not come.
 
My father was married with 3 kids,and was drafted out of an aircraft engine plant and was training in the Phillipines for the invasion of Japan when the bomb was dropped.
My father in law was a infantryman serving in France ,Germany and Czechoslovakia and right after VE day was sent to the Phillipines for the invasion.
So I guess the bomb saved my life and my wifes life.
 
In March of 2005, he publicly stated “If you give me the same circumstances, hell yeah, I'd do it again.”
(Gen. Tibbets)

I took my Mom to (Roman Catholic) church this past Sunday w/ my kids. In the bulletin there was some sappy little paragraph designed to make everyone feel bad about the use of atomic weapons on human beings and just how rotten and evil that had been. They even got the date wrong as having been the 5th of August.

It amazes me the fools that STILL want to take a bath in guilt over the order that Pres. Truman gave to use atomic weapons. They forget the kind of steel his faith was made from--and probably missed the part where in his first public statement after the successful mission he gave praise and thanks to almighty G-d.

Fancy THAT; A man with a high school education, hard battlefield experience as an artillery officer, un-questioned fidelity to his wife, and faith in a Supreme Being---and these were not exceptional credentials.
 
I took my Mom to (Roman Catholic) church this past Sunday w/ my kids. In the bulletin there was some sappy little paragraph designed to make everyone feel bad about the use of atomic weapons on human beings and just how rotten and evil that had been. They even got the date wrong as having been the 5th of August.
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Virtually all current opposition to the atomic bombings is rooted in ignorance, dishonesty or varying combinations of both. It is of a kind with Holocaust revisionism.
 
I had the priveledge to meet and talk with Gen. Tibbetts on several occaisions. He was a very intelligent man who knows he did the right thing by dropping the A-bomb on the Nips. He signed a photo for me which has the inscription: "made it to Tokyo on time." I totally agree. Also, I talked to Col. Rex Barber who shot down Admiral Yamamoto's bomber with his P-38 Lightning. Another great American hero!

In this PC world, we who say that the Enola Gay's crew are heroes, and they were/are, we catch hell by the liberals. But, these same 'liberals' wouldn't be alive today to criticize us and Gen'l. Tibbetts had the fanatical Japs not been smoted! The barbaric Japs would have murdered thousands and thousands of American men, women and children had they won the war. I write this after seeing a Jap bomber pilot on the History Channel this morning describe how his bomb killed 1,100 Americans aboard the Oklahoma, in Pearl Harbor. He was smiling! :mad:

I'm proud my father was in a P-38 group in New Guinea/Philippines who fought the Nips! Amen!!

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I had a cousin die a horrible painful lingering death last year. I was hoping that his end would be peaceful and long away given his start in life. His father was a civil servant in the Colonial Phillipine government when the japs invaded the phillipines. He and his wife and two children, one of them my cousin, were herded into an internment camp in Jan 42. Before the end of the year the father was executed and the baby died of malnutrition. To keep my cousin from dying from malnutrition, his mother gave him most of her food ration. After a year she was blind from malnutrition. She died the next year. When the camp was liberated, my cousin was a 7 year old orphan that weighed 30 pounds.

wish I could kill a couple of million of those slant eyed devils myself.
 
I think a lot of Pacific Rim countries are secretly glad that the Japanese were A-bombed.
 
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