"Last Hiroshima Bomb Crew Member Of Enola Gay Dies At 93" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Jul 2014 10:00 p.m. PST |
"Nearly 69 years ago, 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. A single bomb blast killed some 140,000 people and helped end World War II -- and pushed the world suddenly into the nuclear era. On Monday, Van Kirk died of natural causes at the Park Springs retirement community in Stone Mountain, Georgia, according to his eldest daughter Vicki Triplett…"
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 FingerandToeGlenn  | 31 Jul 2014 7:55 a.m. PST |
When I was a kid in the early 50s, some of the guys who dropped the bomb lived down the street from us in Officer Housing at Walker AFB, NM. Off he's gone, into the wild blue yonder. RIP. |
Patrick Sexton  | 31 Jul 2014 9:05 a.m. PST |
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| Ceterman | 31 Jul 2014 1:22 p.m. PST |
Thanks to the whole crew, they saved my Dad from going to Japan. He was in the European Theater from 42-45. He was training for the Japan invasion in Norfolk VA when the bombs were dropped.
RIP Dutch, and thanks to all of you WW2 vets.
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| Sobieski | 31 Jul 2014 9:18 p.m. PST |
Excuse me if I withhold my thanks from those who destroyed two cities to impress their Russian allies rather than negotiate a surrender. …war's a game that, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at. |
 optional field | 01 Aug 2014 8:23 a.m. PST |
This many lived down a few miles from me until he passed and I didn't know it. It makes me wonder who else is around here… |
| zoneofcontrol | 03 Aug 2014 8:41 a.m. PST |
They and many (or most) of their generation have gone from us. We still live in the shade of their umbrella. It may be a little worn and tattered around the edges but it still covers us none the less. |
| capncarp | 12 Aug 2014 8:28 a.m. PST |
My wife and I got to meet Dutch and Col Tibbetts at the Reading Mid-Atlantic airshows. My wife's birthday is August 6, and she always got chided about her "atomic" birthdate. We thanked them for doing their duty and helping bring the war to a quicker end against a fanatical enemy that refused to fight or treat their prisoners in a civilized fashion. "When all other methods (of negotiation) fail, it is right to raise the sword"-Guru Gobind Singh |
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