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Rendezvous With History: Thomas W. Ferebee and the Enola Gay

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10515
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Abstract:
Thomas Ferebee of Mocksville joined the Army Air Corps in 1941. During World War II he would fly sixty-four missions as a bombardier on a B-17. His most famous mission came at the end of World War II, when as bombardier on the Enola Gay, he dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
Source:
Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 47 Issue 2, Spring 2008, p12-14, il, por