Hicks, executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. The crew members have remained close, said George E. 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,' Enola Gay navigator Ted Van Kirk recalled in a telephone interview, noting the device was imprecise by present standards. 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.' 14, 1945, five days after the Nagasaki bomb was dropped. The only other man who has dropped a nuclear bomb in war, Nagasaki bombardier Kermit Beahan, died in 1989. 'Then I think we should realize that this can't happen again.'
'Now we should look back and remember what just one bomb did, or two bombs,' he told the Charlotte Observer in his home state of North Carolina. 'I'm sorry an awful lot of people died from that bomb, and I hate to think that something like that had to happen to end the war,' Ferebee said in a 1995 interview on the 50th anniversary of the bombing. Still, he voiced strong feelings over the use of nuclear weapons.