"Paul Tibbets was in command of the B-29 aircraft, which dropped the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb over Hiroshima as the US tried to end the second world war without a ground invasion of Japan.
Up to 100,000 people are estimated to have died in the explosion."

My father was in the south Pacific preparing for the invasion of Japan. I salute Tibbets, as he have may very well saved my fathers life (and made mine possible as well). As for the bomb, yes it was horrific! But probably not as much as an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Rest in peace sir.