Miami - Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the second World War, has died at his home in Florida after a brief illness. He was 81.
Ferebee was 26 on August 6th, 1945, but already was a major and a veteran of 64 missions when the B-29 Enola Gay took off for its mission over Japan with the first nuclear weapon ever deployed in its bomb bay. Ferebee, who retired from the air force in 1970 as a colonel, said he never felt guilt for his part in the bombing.
