Originally Posted by Hot Charlie
Tibbets had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest
I saw in one of the daily rags today that as well as this his request to his family is that he wished his ashes to be scattered over the English Channel as he loved flying back over it so much during the war.
Would be an appropiate task for an airworthy B-17 me thinks....unless
Originally Posted by Red Snow
Paul Tibbett's grandson flies (or flew) B-2s for a living with the 509th.
this is still the case and his grandson will be able to arrange something appropiate courtesy of the USAF.