With several hundred others in the audience, I first met Paul Tibbets at EAA AirVenture when it was still called Oshkosh, in the late 1970s or early 1980s. But unless action is taken soon, I’ll have to settle for two out of three, person and plane. But it was August, very hot, and I was sure I’d pass that way again. At the same time I kicked myself for not making the short detour from Interstate 80 on my cross-country motorcycle trip in 1974. Waiting for the YouTube video tour to load (after shaking my head at its unchangeable headline error), my mind played the scene where a black and white Eleanor Parker, playing the wife of 509th commander Paul Tibbets and bundled up in sheepskin flight gear, collects frozen sheets from her Wendover clothesline in the 1952 film, Above & Beyond.
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