Hicks, executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. The crew members have remained close, said George E. Van Kirk said he met Ferebee in the nose of a B-17 in 1942 at Sarasota where they were training and became best friends, flying together in Europe as well as on the Hiroshima mission. All I said was they must have had a very, very large pickle barrel.'
'The Norden bomb sight was supposed to put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 30,000 feet. 'He was like a magician with that bomb sight,' Van Kirk recalled, noting the device was imprecise by present standards.
