> Like Tibbets, Ferebee never expressed regret for his role in the bombing, saying 'it was a job that had to be done.'Thomas Ferebee - Wikipedia Years later, Ferebee said he never felt guilty about dropping the bomb.
PRESENTED BY JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION-GII, $150,000, Keeneland, 7-11, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:33.97, fm. At 89, Theodore Van Kirk is the last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, 65 years ago. Answer (1 of 4): Thomas Wilson Ferebee was the Bombardier aboard the Enola Gay. Time is so kind to significant names.ĪPPALACHIAN S. George McGovern was a long-serving senator for South Dakota and unsuccessful presidential candidate against Richard Nixon in 1972. Enola Gay is the world-famous nickname of the B-29 aircraft who dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945 (mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets, was Enola Gay Tibbets), while Dakota Queen was the Italy-based B-24 bomber valiantly captained by George McGovern in WWII he made a dangerous emergency landing, saving his crew aboard the badly damaged plane, which was named after his wife Eleanor. winner Enola Gay and her dam Dakota Queen carry names of WW2 flying machines (with parallel connections to family females).
