Tibbets awarded DSC after Hiroshima mission, August 1945. The start of the clip shows the B-29 bomber Enola Gay after its return to its base on North Field, Tinian, in the Mariana Islands. Pilot and mission commander Colonel Paul Tibbets is seen being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) by General Carl Spaatz. Tibbets and his crew had dropped the atomic bomb 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima earlier in the day (6 August 1945). The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place on 6 and 9 August 1945, devastating the cities and killing hundreds of thousands, leading to a swift end to World War II. | |
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