Who? The pilot of the B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay", and the director of flight research for the bombing missions over both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The missions that ENDED World War Two. HE IS and WAS a war hero. To deny that is revisionist crap, and I will spit in your eye if you call him otherwise. Wanna hear something so sad and disgusting it offends me(and should offend YOU) to my core? The man requested an unmarked grave and his burial site unregistered. He was afraid someone would desecrate it. OMFG, are we this ignorant and stupid? Are there really people out there who would do this? This guy deserves the Old Guard , caisson and drums, riderless horse and burial with honors in Arlington Cemetery. ANd he is going to a spot no one will know or have a chance to honor. This is truly and utterly disgusting.
You can argue revisionist terms till you are blue; the fact remains the bombings ended the war. They sent a signal to the Japanese that we would NEVER stop until we wiped them off the face of the earth, unless they unconditionally surrendered. It wasn't racist, it wasn't to scare the Russians, it was to END THE WAR.
The operation planned for the invasion of Japan, operation Coronet, would have left us with a minimum of another half million dead soldiers and a million wounded. What would have happened to the japanese doesn't need to be mentioned. Plus, the Russians would have invaded, and we would have had a North Japan/.South Japan, on the model of Korea today.
Here's a thought; today when soldiers are wounded or killed, they recieve the purple heart. We are still using the purple hearts manufactured in 44-45 created for the casualties anticipated in operation Coronet. We won't run out; there are still 420,000 left!
And yet, the man who started the process of ending the war and was man enough to participate in its implementation, is buried in an unmarked grave.
Aren't we just proud of ourselves????????

Of note: His grandson, Paul Tibbets IV, is a bomber pilot in the USAF. He flies a B-2 Spirit. B-2's are named after special things. His personal aircraft is "The spirit of the Enola Gay"
For those of you who are WWII ignorant- "Enola Gay" was the name of Paul's mother.
My father was also a B-29 pilot, and met Tibbets after the war.