Last Surviving Crew Member of Enola Gay Dies At 93

Above, the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall in the 1930s.

The last surviving member of the crew of the Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II has died.

The BBC website reported:

The last surviving member of the US air crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia aged 93. 

Theodore Van Kirk, also known as "Dutch", was 24 when he became the navigator of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the bomb. 

The attack on Japan on 6 August 1945 killed an estimated 140,000 people. 

Above, the former Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall,
now the "Atomic Bomb Dome" in 2004. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

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