'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. Hicks, executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. The crew members have remained close, said George E. 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. All I said was they must have had a very, very large pickle barrel.' '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.
