![]() 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 site was supposed to put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 30,000 feet. ''He was like a magician with that bomb site,'' Van Kirk recalled in a telephone interview, noting the device was imprecise by present standards. weapons officer Morris Jeppson, of Las Vegas, Nev., and radio operator Richard Nelson, of Riverside, Calif. ![]() Paul Tibbets, had hand-picked Ferebee for his crew and called him ''the best bombardier who ever looked through the eyepiece of a Norden bomb site.''įerebee's death leaves only four surviving members of the Enola Gay's crew: Tibbets, of Columbus, Ohio navigator Ted Van Kirk, of Novato, Calif.
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