Return of the Enola Gay

New Hope, PA: Enola Gay Remembered / A Paul Tibbets Book, 1998 Enola Gay Remembered / A Paul Tibbets Book, New Hope, PA. 1998. Hardcover. 60th Anniversary Restoration Edition 1945-2005 observing the restoration of the iconic airplane. Signed by Tibbets (pilot) Van Kirk (Navigator), and Morris Jeppson (armorer) on the photo page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00 on the barcode on the front flap); light bumping to head and tail. Black buckram boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 339 pp 8vo. COL Tibbets was solely responsible for the organization, training, and command of the world's first nuclear strike force. On the morning of 6 August 1945, COL Tibbets flew the Enola Gay into the future by dropping the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This is his life story, from childhood, through his military career, civilian life with a private aviation company, his retirement and his feelings looking back on the dropping of the bomb. A newspaper clipping about Jeppson's death on April, 8, 2010 from the Las Vegas Sun is laid in. A clean very presentable copy.