Thomas Wilson Ferebee (1919-2000), the
lead bombardier aboard the
B-29 Superfortress "
Enola Gay", was the man who pulled the lever that dropped the
atomic bomb on
Hiroshima on
August 6, 1945.
He believed he was part of a normal mission when he delivered the world's first nuclear weapon to the Japanese city. The "tremendous blinding light" proved otherwise.
Ferebee was a strong proponent of the
United States' decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima until the day he died,
March 16, 2000 at the age of 81.
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