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Davie Native Dropped the Bomb that Made History - Davie County Enterprise Record

ESQUIMALT, AUG 6 – Community members at Esquimalt's Japanese-style pavilion mark 80 years since atomic bombings with lantern making and launching to honor victims and promote peace.

By Marcia Phillips For the Enterprise Aug. 6 marked the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in world warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima to bring World War II to an end. The man with his hand on the lever to release that weapon into history was Davie County’s own native son – Thomas Ferebee. Tom was born on Nov. 9, 1917 into a rural family near Cana in the waning hours of World War I, supposedly the War to End All Wa…

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