Atomic Exposure

[rangerrebew]

Atomic Exposure
USAAC Navigator Photographed first Nuclear Missions
December 12, 2016 By Airman Magazine   
 

In a small one-bedroom apartment in Clearwater, Florida, 93-year-old Russell Gackenbach sat on his floral patterned sofa thumbing through a photo album containing original prints of some of the most iconic people and events in United States military history.

“This is me and Tibbets (Col. Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay),” Gackenbach said, as he pointed to two U.S. Army Air Force officers standing next to one another. “This was me and Necessary Evil, the plane I flew on as we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima (Japan).”

http://airman.dodlive.mil/2016/12/12/atomic-exposure/

[Fishrrman]

Good story with 3 minute video.
The guy looks pretty good at 93!