Topic: Paul Tibbets

Actor Samara Weaving turns 30 and actor Patricia Richardson turns 71, among the famous birthdays for Feb. 23.

On Feb. 23, 1945, members of the 5th Division of the U.S. Marines planted a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on the strategically important Pacific island of Iwo Jima near the end of one of World War II's bloodiest battles.

On Feb. 23, 1945, the U.S. Marines raised the American flag atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, producing one of the most memorable moments of the war.

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Paul Tibbets Jr., who flew the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died Thursday in his Columbus, Ohio, home at age 92.

The pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan during World War II is on his way to the remote Pacific islands where the historic mission originated.

War is the heaviest cross mankind carries as verified in "Hell In The Pacific," a Learning Channel special significantly scheduled for Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Day.