"You've got to take stock and assess the situation at that time. He said in a 1975 interview: "I'm not proud that I killed 80,000 people, but I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did. But my one driving interest was to do the best job I could so that we could end the killing as quickly as possible." "We knew it was going to kill people right and left. "I knew when I got the assignment it was going to be an emotional thing," Mr Tibbets told the Columbus Dispatch in a story published on the 60th anniversary of the bombing. Lewis during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare. On 6 August 1945, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. It was the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. The Enola Gay was a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. It does seem like they handled this very serious story a bit too flipantly, but having just watched the whole thing, I do think they also tried to help Americans understand what it was like for people on that morning. It’s a typical linear OMD song, it is the same four chords all the way through. They brought on people thinking they were just there for a normal interview and then surprise them by telling their life story and brining in lots of guests from their past. Asked whether he had any regrets, he said: 'Hell no, no second thoughts. Once I got those primary ingredients I then had the blueprint to write the song. In March this year, Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, also said the bomb had saved lives. So, Paul was out and I was at his house and I just started writing the chords on the organ and the melody. Heres a Guardian interview with Paul Tibbets, the man who dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 6, 1944. His historic mission in the aircraft named for his mother marked the beginning of the end of US involvement in the second World War and eliminated the need for what military planners feared would have been an extraordinarily bloody invasion of Japan. How I wrote Enola Gay by OMD’s Andy McCluskey in Songwriting Magazine. Mr Tibbets, who died at his home in Columbus, Ohio, had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing that it would provide his detractors with a place to protest. He insisted almost to his dying day that he had no regrets about the mission and had no problem sleeping. Mr Tibbets flew the B-29 bomber Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
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US:The pilot of the aircraft which dropped the world's first atomic bomb used in warfare, Paul Tibbets, died yesterday aged 92.