Ferebee died at age 81 on March 16, 2000, in Windermere, Fla. Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, navigator for the Enola Gay Ferebee, who retired from the U.S.
Joining him that day were three of his best friends, including two fellow members of the Enola Gay crew. Ferebee was the bombardier on the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. David Harrison submitted this photograph he took in Mocksville on May 27, 1991, when several hundred Davie Countians gathered in Mocksville to honor their native son Thomas Ferebee with a short parade at town square and the dedication of a historical marker on U.S.