Description
First edition of Superfortress: The B-29 and American Air Power by General Curtis E. LeMay, signed by the pilot of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets and his radio operator.
Octavo, xvi, 222pp. Gray hardcover, blue cloth spine, title in silver. The first printing, with a full number line on copyright page. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $18.95 retail price on the front flap, a fine example.
This copy is signed on the half title: “Paul Tibbets / Pilot B29 / Enola Gay” and “R.H. Nelson / Radio / Enola Gay / Aug 6, 1945.”
Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets Jr. (1915-2007) commanded the B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay,” which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. He is featured numerous times in this book by General LeMay.
