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Before he dropped the world’s first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima in a B-29 Super Fortress named for his mother, “Enola Gay,” Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets flew a B-17 Flying Fortress over Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
The “Red Gremlin” was the plane he piloted as commander of the first B-17 squadron to bomb Nazi-occupied France during the summer of 1942 as part of the 97th Bombardment Group. Sgt. Orville Splitt of Englewood, Fla. was the radio operator on that B-17.
Also includes photograph of The Red Gremlin Plane, which had a cartoon-like drawing of a gremlin on its side.