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Tibbets wrote that the move provided him the best of both worlds: A life in Florida, plus the chance to escape Florida's summer heat with his mother and sister by returning to Iowa "for prolonged vacations." His mother and sister remained behind to pack up the house in Des Moines. His son remembered being, at age 9, the first in the family to join him, via a train trip, on July 4, 1924. The senior Tibbets remained in Florida to establish his own wholesale confectioner's business. When he saw the palm trees and felt the warmth of the Florida sun, he decided on the spot that this was for him." later wrote: "He boarded the train in a blizzard and arrived in Miami two days later in bright sunshine. The senior Tibbets went to Florida to visit his mother, who always wintered there, and as Tibbets Jr.
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Photos: Iowa's five famous Sullivan brothers, World War II casualties.Iowa values carried Donna Reed to Hollywood stardom and an Oscar.Elvis Presley draws 4,000 to Vets for his first Iowa show.Iowa native Bob Feller throws baseball's only Opening Day no-hitter.The senior Tibbets had met his Glidden-born future wife while crossing Iowa on business.Ī turning point came during a particularly nasty Iowa winter. (U.S.His father was employed by his family-operated wholesale grocery company, Warfield, Pratt & Howell, that was based in Chicago and had branches in Davenport, Des Moines and Sioux City. The five-year death total may have reached or even exceeded 200,000, as cancer and other long-term effects took hold. By the end of 1945, because of the lingering effects of radioactive fallout and other after effects, the Hiroshima death toll was probably over 100,000. This included about twenty American airmen being held as prisoners in the city. Some 70,000 people probably died as a result of initial blast, heat, and radiation effects. No one will ever know for certain how many died as a result of the attack on Hiroshima. The yield of the explosion was later estimated at 15 kilotons (the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT). boiling up, mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall,” Tibbets recalled. “The city was hidden by that awful cloud. After a secondEnola Gay returning from Hiroshima mission, Tinian Field, Augshock wave (reflected from the ground) hit the plane, the crew looked back at Hiroshima.
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At first, Tibbets thought he was taking flak. Though already eleven and a half miles away, the Enola Gay was rocked by the blast. Forty-three seconds later, a huge explosion lit the morning sky as Little Boy detonated 1,900 feet above the city, directly over a parade field where soldiers of the Japanese Second Army were doing calisthenics. Tibbets immediately dove away to avoid the anticipated shock wave. Hiroshima time the Enola Gay released “Little Boy,” its 9,700-pound uranium gun-type bomb, over the city. The bomber, piloted by the commander of the 509th Composite Group, Colonel Paul Tibbets, flew at low altitude on automatic pilot before climbing to 31,000 feet as it neared the target area. Hiroshima had a civilian population of almost 300,000 and was an important military center, containing about 43,000 soldiers. The bomber’s primary target was the city of Hiroshima, located on the deltas of southwestern Honshu Island facing the Inland Sea. In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan.
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