Dave Sablan & Gen Paul Tibbits-Pilot of Enola Gay

Dave Sablan and Maj Gen. Paul Tibbits. The pilot of the famous Enolay Gay the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima in August 1945. Gen. Tibbits revisited Saipan on the 60th Anniversary of the Invasion of Saipan - June 15, 1944.

Gene Autrey Meets Saipan Mayor -USO Show 1945

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1945 Photo of Gene Autry and his group on USO trip to Saipan. Mayor Elias Sablan stands on Gene's left side. Second from left-Magdalena Sablan;4th is Isabel Pangelinan; Second from right is Mrs. Dolores Pangelinan. Mayor Sablan in 1955 joined the U.S. delegation to U.N. to report our progress political, eductional, economic progress to the Trusteeship Council.