grannys gone and done it

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any time  just bring enough money with you to ship your body back  for when Enola and Porter  and probably crazy Sheila  all get  ahold of you.  

pssssstt    that's 2 -B's  and no d's    lol 

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a [COLOR=000080]brigadier general[/COLOR] in the [COLOR=000080]United States Air Force[/COLOR]. He is best known as the pilot who flew the [COLOR=000080]Enola Gay[/COLOR] (named after his mother) when it dropped [COLOR=000080]Little Boy[/COLOR], the first of two [COLOR=000080]atomic bombs[/COLOR] used in warfare, on the Japanese city of [COLOR=000080]Hiroshima[/COLOR].
Tibbets enlisted in the [COLOR=000080]United States Army[/COLOR] in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. After the Japanese [COLOR=000080]attack on Pearl Harbor[/COLOR], he flew anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic. In February 1942, he became the commanding officer of the [COLOR=000080]340th Bombardment Squadron[/COLOR] of the [COLOR=000080]97th Bombardment Group[/COLOR], which was equipped with the [COLOR=000080]Boeing B-17[/COLOR]. In July 1942 the 97th became the first heavy bombardment group to be deployed as part of the [COLOR=000080]Eighth Air Force[/COLOR], and Tibbets became deputy group commander. He flew the lead plane in the first American daylight [COLOR=000080]heavy bomber[/COLOR] mission against [COLOR=000080]Occupied Europe[/COLOR] on 17 August 1942, and the first American raid of more than 100 bombers in Europe on 9 October 1942. Tibbets was chosen to fly Major General [COLOR=000080]Mark W. Clark[/COLOR] and [COLOR=000080]Lieutenant General[/COLOR] [COLOR=000080]Dwight D. Eisenhower[/COLOR] to Gibraltar. After flying 43 combat missions, he became the assistant for bomber operations on the staff of the [COLOR=000080]Twelfth Air Force[/COLOR].
Tibbets returned to the United States in February 1943 to help with the development of the [COLOR=000080]Boeing B-29 Superfortress[/COLOR]. In September 1944, he was appointed the commander of the [COLOR=000080]509th Composite Group[/COLOR], which would conduct the [COLOR=000080]bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki[/COLOR]. After the war, he participated in the [COLOR=000080]Operation Crossroads[/COLOR] [COLOR=000080]nuclear weapon[/COLOR] tests at [COLOR=000080]Bikini Atoll[/COLOR] in mid-1946, and was involved in the development of the [COLOR=000080]Boeing B-47 Stratojet[/COLOR] in the early 1950s. He commanded the [COLOR=000080]308th Bombardment Wing[/COLOR] and [COLOR=000080]6th Air Division[/COLOR] in the late 1950s, and was [COLOR=000080]military attaché[/COLOR] in India from 1964 to 1966. After leaving the Air Force in 1966, he worked for [COLOR=000080]Executive Jet Aviation[/COLOR], serving as its president from 1976 until his retirement in 1987.
Tibbets is what I spelled but auto correct got me. Or that's what I'm claiming anyway.
 
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just like slick willy I puffed but didn't inhale.
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