Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk navigated a U.S. B-29 Superfortress called the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, Japan, on a sunny August day. Once over its target, the Enola Gay unloaded the first atomic bomb dropped in war.
On Monday, Van Kirk died of natural causes at the Park Springs retirement community in Stone Mountain, Georgia
He was 93.
His death means there are now no surviving members of the Enola Gay's crew who, by doing their jobs, became an early and integral part in the ongoing narrative over nuclear weapons.
Yet the history books will largely remember him and others aboard that B-29 for the morning of August 6, 1945.
STORY LINK : http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/29/us/enola-gay-crew-member-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Documentary Atomic Bomb : Trinity and Beyond : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uusEDvUhvY
B-29 Enola Gay Crew interview 1940's : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Pt215DLio
Construction of B-29 Super Fortress : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcS3TCI4SBw
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