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Last Survivor of Enola Gay Crew Dies

The last surviving crewmember of the Enola Gay — the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II — has died. Theodore Van Kirk was 93 years-old and living in a retirement home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, outside Atlanta. Van Kirk was the navigator of the B-29 that dropped the bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The blast killed as many as 140,000 people. A second attack, on Nagasaki three days later,...


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