Primary materials from the O.R.D. on Textiles, Teachers and Troops, a digital repository of Greensboro historyįor more about North Carolina’s history, arts and culture, visit Cultural Resources online. To receive these updates automatically each day, make sure you subscribe by email using the box on the right, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.He never expressed regret about dropping the A-bomb, maintaining that it saved more lives than it took by ending the war sooner. Six days later, the Japanese government surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.įerebee retired from the U.S. On August 9, another bomber crew dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Forty-three seconds later, the bomb detonated, instantly killing 70,000 people. In the middle stands the pilot of the 'Enola Gay', Col. The bomber has just returned from its flight during which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The 9,000-pound bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy,” tumbled from the plane’s belly and sped six miles to its target below. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. The ground crew of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay' before the plane at the Tinian airport on Mariana Islands in the Pacific. Army Air Force B-29 bomber named 'Enola Gay' over Hiroshima, Japan August.
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Ferebee, then 26 and a veteran of 64 combat missions, was napping and initially did not hear the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr., brief the crew about their top-secret mission.Īpproaching Hiroshima, Ferebee activated the plane’s automated Norden bombsight, centered its crosshairs on the Aioi Bridge and called “bomb away.” It was 8:15 a.m. Smoke billows 20,000 feet (6100 metres) after an atomic bomb codenamed 'Little Boy' exploded after being dropped by a U.S.
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Van Kirk, Tom Ferebee, Gunner George Caron, Richard H. from Tinian Island in the western Pacific. Photograph signed by six crew members of the bomber 'Enola Gay': Pilot Paul W. The 12-man crew aboard the B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off for Hiroshima at 2 a.m. Army Air Corps bombardier and Mocksville native, dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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On August 6, 1945, Major Thomas Wilson Ferebee, a U.S.