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Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. Tibbets flew 25 missions in Bs. In September, , he was briefed on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the development of the atom bomb. It was his job to organize and train a unit to deliver atomic bombs in combat operations. Germany, of course, had surrendered months earlier.

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Hiroshima had a civilian population of almost , and was an important military center, containing about 43, soldiers. The bomber, piloted by the commander of the th Composite Group, Colonel Paul Tibbets, flew at low altitude on automatic pilot before climbing to 31, feet as it neared the target area.

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The database, which was confirmed by U. But the eventual total could be much higher. One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details that have not been made public, said the purge could delete as many as , images or posts in total, when considering social media pages and other websites that are also being culled for DEI content.