Thomas Ferebee
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican bombardier (1918-2000)
United StatesLived 1918 to 2000 · aged 81Fame48.6
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Thomas Wilson Ferebee was the bombardier aboard the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima in 1945.
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Left to right: Major Thomas W. Ferebee, Bombardier; Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. Pilot; Capt. Theodore J. Van Kirk, Navigator; and Captain Robert Lewis.
Picture of Ferebee taken on Tinian after the dropping of Little Boy on Hiroshima and the instant oneshotting of roughly 70,000 people, mainly civilian. This left him with possibly the highest (if not highest, then second only to Lorenz Hackenholt) direct kill count of any person, including Acute radiation syndrome victims who died later.Awards 2
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Lived 1918 to 2000 · aged 81
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