"I think we should definitely realize it just can't happen again. "We should look back and think just what one bomb did, what two did and think about what just one hydrogen bomb would do," Ferebee said in the 1985 Sentinel interview. He thought of the bombing as a necessary duty that would help end the war, not as an act that would kill, she said. "He was pleased that high school and college students were interested in that part of history," Mary Ann Ferebee said. Hicks served as historian and coordinating producer for a film documentary on the Hiroshima bombing, titled The Men who Brought the Dawn, in 1995.įerebee spoke about the mission and WWII to students at Rollins College in Orlando and answered letters and e-mail inquiries on a regular basis. The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by. The Grandson of Col Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay (Hiroshima, Aug 6, 1945) is now the second in command of all US Nuclear bomber and missile forces. The bomb they carried, dubbed Little Boy, was the world's first. One of the B-29s that escorted the Enola Gay into Japan was called 'Necessary Evil'. Hicks, executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. The 13-man crew for the Enola Gay on its historic Hishoma run were as follows: Colonel Paul Tibbetts, pilot and mission commander. Which leaves Van Kirk as the only living crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that set out from Tinian on 6 August 1945.
The crew members have remained close, said George E. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was used by the United States on August 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive. Van Kirk said he met Ferebee in the nose of a B-17 in 1942 at Sarasota where they were training and became best friends, flying together in Europe as well as on the Hiroshima mission. lewis - co-pilot, enola gay' s assigned aircraft commander major thomas ferebee - bombardier captain theodore 'dutch' van kirk - navigator u.s. All I said was they must have had a very, very large pickle barrel." waves from the cockpit of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay before he took off to drop the first atomic bomb used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. "The Norden bomb sight was supposed to put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 30,000 feet.
"He was like a magician with that bomb sight," Van Kirk recalled, noting the device was imprecise by present standards.