'The guards looked around for things like escape tunnels but they didn't have shake downs of the huts for contraband. 'The camp was run by the Luftwaffe and not the SS and the guards were quite respectful of the men in there. 'Some of the illustrations are a bit near the knuckle as they clearly highlight the work going on to build the tunnel. 'Sulstan's scrapbook contains illustrations of camp life, sports, and play productions and are also shown in photo form, suggesting the PoWs had been granted use of a camera. Tom Lamb, from Bonhams, said: 'The Canadian YMCA were allowed to give scrapbooks like this one to PoWs to keep them occupied.
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The crew of the Enola Gay pose in front of the aircraft. He spent over four years in Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Poland, and played a major part in designing and painting scenery for the stage productions at the camp. On Aughe was the co-pilot of Enola Gay which left Tinian island in the Pacific at 2.35am to fly north to Japan. Life inside: Archibald Sulston's depiction of life in one of huts at Stalag Luft IIIįl Lt Sulstan, from Boarstall, near Aylesbury, Bucks, was captured after his plane was shot down over Essen in Holland in 1941. on August 6, 1945, a modified American B-29 Superfortress bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima. Remarkably, the scrapbook contains some 100 photographs of the PoWs taken on a camera acquired by the men and processed in the camp.įl Lt Sulston did not take part in the Great Escape of 1944 which resulted in 50 of the recaptured 73 prisoners being executed under Hitler's orders.īut, given his excellent artistic skills, it is highly likely he helped with the production of forged papers and documents the men needed on the outside. Oberst Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav von Lindeiner stated it had been in bad taste and was a 'serious provocation' to the German guards, especially at a time when 'thousands of innocent women and children' were being killed by Allied bombing raids. 6, 1945, when Tibbets flew the B-29 bomber Enola Gay over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and released a 10,000-pound atomic bomb dubbed 'Little Boy.' The blast killed between 70,000.
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The Enola Gay is remembered today as being the aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan nearly seventy-five years ago, and its infamous. The B-2, which has been at the Missouri base since 1993, has been flying since the 1990s and is still the world's only long-range bomber with technology that makes the batwing aircraft difficult for radar to detect and track.A cartoon titled 'Circuit Bashers' shows men spying on layout beyond camp wire at Stalag Luft IIIĪll the works were produced at the time by Fl Lt Sulston, meaning that had the images been found by German guards they may have learnt of the escape plot.Īlso found in Fl Lt Sulston's scrapbook was a missive from the commandant of Stalag Luft III to a British general scolding him for allowing his men to break camp rules and play the British national anthem after a concert party. Here is the B-29 that conducted the second raid. The Bomb Wing at Whiteman is responsible for flying the fleet of 20 nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers to targets around the world, often directly. His awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. He also trained on B-2s at Whiteman in the 1990s, commanded a bomb squadron at the base and was a vice commander of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing in southwest Asia in 2010-2011.
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Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Tibbets, 48, previously served as deputy director for nuclear operations for the U.S. His grandfather would also tell them, Tibbets said, that "he's counting on you, he's counting on us, today's generation of airmen, to continue as you do each and every day to raise the bar and set the standard and continue the great work that our nation relies on us to to do." Tibbets told about 500 people attending the ceremony in a hangar at the base that his grandfather would be "touched by your appreciation for his service and the service of those that he was with back in that time."