I had the honor of meeting General Tibbets in the early 2000's while he was on a book tour. He came to my home town where we have a Military aviation museum. The airport where the book signing occurred was a Hellcat training facility during WWII.
This picture was taken that day. It was funny a moment. This was in the days before digital cameras where we had the one-hour developing at places like CVS. I went early in the signing bought his book and a few other items including the Enola Gay stamp that was never adopted and a photo of the Enola Gay which he is autographing. We took this picture, I ran to the nearest place that had one hour developing and came back with the photo and stood in line again. When he saw the photo he turned to I believe his wife that is just out of the photo and said look this was taken today.
He graciously autographed my photo. He was very gentlemanly and soft spoken. It was a great honor to meet him and I will never forget that day.
