TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007)
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TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb, Hiroshima, 6th August 1945. A colour printed 4to reproduction of Arthur Szyk's artwork entitled There Shall Be Wings, featuring Leonardo da Vinci and with images of various air balloons, airships and other aircraft to the borders, originally intended as the title page for a never-published stamp album series, signed by Tibbets in bold black ink with his name alone to the lower white border. With a rubber stamped caption beneath the signature, incorporating the date of the bombing of Hiroshima (slightly smudged), and a postage stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of solo Transatlantic flight also neatly affixed to the lower border. A couple of light, minor corner creases, otherwise VG
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