my dad was 19 at his first duty station. Pearl Harbor, December 1941. He'd been there two weeks at the time of the attack. USS Raleigh took at least one torpedo but didnt sink.
I've tried a zillion times to imagine such an event through the eyes of a 19 year old. I've also tried to imagine myself in Gen Tibbets position more than once. Again, nearly impossible to imagine being in such a position in world events.
Yeah. It was a different time
R.I.P. General Tibbets