Last survivor of 12-member Enola Gay bomber crew dies

Last survivor of 12-member Enola Gay bomber crew dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in 2007 shows Theodore Van Kirk, the navigator of the Enola Gay, the U.S. bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. The last survivor of the 12-member crew of the B-29 Superfortress has died at the age of 93.

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