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Copy of Return of the Enola Gay by Paul W. B/w pages and dust jacket, 339 pages with 22 pages of b/w photos, 6¼x9¼x¾. Tibbets, signed by Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, and navigator Theodore Van Kirkīook signed "Dutch Van Kirk" and "Paul Tibbets" in blue ink on first page after fly leaf.