At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, ntroversy surround the ntext which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.
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MOCKSVILLE MAN HELPED LIVER ATOMIC BOMB ON BOARD ENOLA GAY
After growg up there, Thomas Ferebee served on the Enola Gay flight crew and would ultimately bee the man who pulled the leaver to ploy “Ltle Boy” on Hiroshima on Aug.
In 1945, roughly 100 days before Hiroshima, Ferebee would be asked to serve one of the most secretive missns of the war, as a member of the Enola Gay crew.
“[The Enola Gay crew] ma no apologi for the job that they did, ” he said. Tman, pulled the lever om the Enola Gay’s drop hatch and released “Ltle Boy” onto the unexpected cy below.
EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
The bombg and the Enola Gay crew were to return home and face qutns and cricism for their role the endg of the war. Enola Gay, the B-29bomber that was ed by the Uned Stat on Augt 6, 1945, to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time the explosive vice had been ed on an enemy target.