Last survivor of 12-member Enola Gay bomber crew dies

Last survivor of 12-member Enola Gay bomber crew dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2010 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum near Washington, the United States, shows the Enola Gay, the U.S. bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. Theodore Van Kirk, the last survivor of the 12-member crew of the B-29 Superfortress has died at the age of 93.

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