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. Colonel Paul Tibbets says to co-pilot Robert Lewis, Lets go. 'Dutch' Van Kirk, the last surviving crew member of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima reminisces.For more CNN videos, check out our YouTube. According to Professor Dower, the number of kamikaze pilots who gave their. 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. Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, best known as the pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb onto the Japanese war-supporting city of Hiroshima, has died at the age of 92. His awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. Robert Lewis, American co-pilot of the B-29 bomber, made the copy in 1945 at the request of the then-science editor at The New York Times, and it includes a pencil sketch of the mushroom cloud, Bonhams auction. 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. A copy of a deeply moving pilot's log, written during the top-secret Enola Gay mission that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, was auctioned in New York on Wednesday for 50,000. who would have been expected to carry out a suicidal defense of their homelands. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. The surviving members of the Enola Gay crew, Paul W. 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 Jr., was assigned to a predecessor of the 509th Bomb Wing when he piloted the Enola Gay in the world's first atomic bomb mission on Aug. 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."