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THOMAS WILSON FEREBEE:

Hero or Villain?

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING

BY

ELIAN

SCOTT

DANIEL

SPENCER

The Second World War

Hero

  • He was willing to deploy a nuclear bomb because he thought it would stop World War 2.
  • He helped to put an end to the second world war.
  • He was willing to do what nobody else was.
  • He helped the United states of America in the war.

The Atomic Bomb

The Crew

In August 1945, the Americans dropped bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Code names: Hiroshima: Little Boy

Nagasaki: Fat Man

Equivelant tons of TNT: 18,000

Joules of energy given off: 84TJ

Size: Roughly 3m

Weight: Roughly 4,550 kg

Bomber: Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomber: Enola Gay.

A small parachute was attached to the bomb to allow the plane time to get out of the blast radius and the bomb was detonated a few meters in the air so that the site didn't have long term radiation .

Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomber was named after pilot, Paul Tibbets's mother; Enola Gay Tibbets.

The crew of Enola Gay consisted of thirteen (an unlucky number; especially for the Japanese on August 6th 1945) men:

Paul Tibbets, Thomas Ferebee, Robert Lewis, Deke Parsons, Robert Shumard, Wyatt Duzenbury, Robert Caron, Richard Nelson, Morris Jepson, Joseph Stiborick, Jacob Beser and Theodore Van Kirk.

Major Thomas Ferebee was the bombardier on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomber Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

HERO OR VILLAIN?

Villain

• He killed millions of innocent people.

• They bombed Japan after they had surrendered.

• The war had officially ended three months earlier with Hitler’s suicide.

SUMMARY

Thomas Ferebee

As a child Thomas Ferebee was a talented athlete and earned sporting awards in track, american football and basketball. After failing his application to the Boston Red Sox, he joined the army. The only reason that he joined the flight section of the army because of a knee injury disabling him from joining a different section.

After flying over sixty missions, he was drafted to the 509th composite group, formed to drop the first atomic bomb.

Born: November 9, 1918, Mocksville, North Carolina, USA

Died: March 16, 2000, Florida, USA aged 81

Siblings: eleven

Awards: the Silver Star and the Air Medal

Wars: the Second World War and the Vietnam War

Parents:William Flavious Ferebee and Zella Ward Ferebee

Retired from service: 1970

Jobs: Bombardier and Real estate agent

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