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• LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93
• THEODORE VAN KIRK, LAST CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY, DI US AGED 93
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY'S LAST CREW MEMBER THEODORE VAN KIRK DI
• THEODORE VAN KIRK, LAST OF THE ENOLA GAY CREW, DI, AGE 93
• LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY CREW IS DEAD
• LAST SURVIVOR OF ENOLA GAY CREW DI
• THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON
• THE LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF THE ENOLA GAY CREW DI
• ENOLA GAY
• HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
• WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?
• WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?

LAST LIVG CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY DI GEIA AT AGE 93

FILE: The crew of US Air Force "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortrs bomber that livered the Hiroshima atomic bomb. He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the first atomic bomb ployed wartime over the Japane cy of Hiroshima on Aug. Theodore Van Kirk, also known as "Dutch", was 24 when he beme the navigator of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the attack on Japan on 6 Augt 1945 killed an timated 140, 000 people.

"I know he was regnized as a war hero, but we jt knew him as a great father", he told Van Kirk died of natural at the retirement home where he lived, his son source, PAImage ptn, The Enola Gay was named after the mother of pilot Pl had been the last survivg member of the Enola Gay crew sce 2010 when Morris Jeppson, the assistant weaponeer, funeral is expected to take place next week Pennsylvania. He was Kirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortrs aircraft that dropped “Ltle Boy” – the world’s first atomic bomb – over the Japane cy of Hiroshima on 6 Augt 1945. After the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.

THEODORE VAN KIRK, LAST CREW MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY, DI US AGED 93

The Enola Gay is a B-29 Superfortrs, which pilot Pl Tibbets named after his mother, and which had been stripped of everythg but the necsi, so as to be thoands of pounds lighter than an ordary plane of that make.

While did not drop the bomb on Nagasaki, the Enola Gay did take flight to get data on the weather the lead-up to the send strike on Japan. In the aftermath of World War II, the Army Air Forc flew the Enola Gay durg an atomic tt program the Pacific; was then livered to be stored an airfield Arizona before beg flown to Illois and transferred to the Smhsonian July 1949.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

But even unr the ctody of the mm, the Enola Gay remaed at an air force base Texas.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

The Commtee for the Rtoratn and Display of the Enola Gay now has 9, 000 signatur of prott. Adams, who is leavg his job after 10 relatively ntroversy-ee years, sent back a three-page answer stiffly turng down her requt for the Enola Gay. Demonstrators prott at the Enola Gay exhib at the the Smhsonian Natnal Air and Space Mm's Steven F.

And as long as is on display, the qutns rais are likely to ntue — after all, they have been wh the Enola Gay sce first beme a hoehold name.

There were three strike plan that flew over Hiroshima that day: the Enola Gay, which rried the bomb, and two observatn plan, the Great Artiste and the Necsary Evil. The Enola Gay rried the weapon, nicknamed "Ltle Boy. Then, the rad went ad: that was the signal om the Enola Gay that the bomb had been released.

ENOLA GAY'S LAST CREW MEMBER THEODORE VAN KIRK DI

On Augt 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the cy of Hiroshima. "Colonel Ferebee died Florida 2000, at the age of Air Force radar specialist Jab Ber was the only man who served on both the Enola Gay the Hiroshima bombg missn and the Bock's Car three days later when s crew bombed Nagasaki. "Stiborik died of a heart attack 1984 at age Jeppson was only 23 years old when he was assigned to acpany the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay.

Richard Nelson was the youngt of the Enola Gay crew.

THEODORE VAN KIRK, LAST OF THE ENOLA GAY CREW, DI, AGE 93

"Nelson died om emphysema 2003 at age Gay tail gunner Bob Caron wrote a book about the missn lled Fire of a Thoand Suns. He was 75 years Duzenbury kept tabs on the Enola Gay's eng and other systems while others tend the bomb and the missn self.

"Duzenbury died 1992 at age Shumard assisted flight engeer Wyatt Duzenbury keepg the Enola Gay nng. He armed the first atomic bomb while the Enola Gay was airborne.

He was upset that manr Pl Tibbets had named his plane the Enola Gay.

LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF ENOLA GAY CREW IS DEAD

The last crew member of the Enola Gay — the bomber which famoly dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan near the end of WWII — has died Geia.

Van Kirk was he was jt a young man of 24 years old, Van Kirk was the navigator on the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortrs, which dropped "Ltle Boy" on Hiroshima at 8:15 a.

In a 2005 terview wh the AP, Dutch Van Kirk said his World War II experience showed that wars and atomic bombs don't settle anythg, and he'd like to see the weapons survivg Enola Gay crewman di Stone Mounta (Atlanta Journal-Constutn)Pilot of plane that bombed Hiroshima diSOCIAL— Hasani Gtens and The Associated Prs. 44pmNew York: Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk, the navigator and last survivg crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortrs that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima the last days of World War II, died on Monday Stone Mounta, Geia. He was son, Thomas, nfirmed the left, Capta Theodore Van Kirk, Colonel Pl Tibbets and Major Thomas Ferebee after their return om New York TimIn the predawn hours of Augt 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Pl Tibbets jnr and rryg a crew of 12, took off om Tian the Mariana Islands wh a uranium bomb built unr extraordary secrecy the vast Manhattan Project.

LAST SURVIVOR OF ENOLA GAY CREW DI

Theodore Van Kirk, navigator of the Enola Gay, pictured here APWhen the Enola Gay reached Iwo Jima as the sun rose, began an ascent to 31, 000 feet. 15 am Japan time, reached Hiroshima, a cy of 250, 000 and the se of an important army bombardier, Major Thomas Ferebee, said, "I got , " announcg that the Enola Gay was over his aimg pot, the T-shaped Ai Bridge. His navigatg skills had brought the Enola Gay to s target only a few sends behd schle at the ncln of a 6½-hour flight.

THE ENOLA GAY'S HISTORY LIV ON

Tibbets executed a divg turn to avoid the blast effects, but the Enola Gay was buffeted by a pair of shock wav.

THE LAST SURVIVG MEMBER OF THE ENOLA GAY CREW DI

A flash of light that Van Kirk likened to a photographer's flashbulb engulfed the crew of the Enola Gay is briefed after returng om their atomic bombg missn over AP"The plane jumped and ma a sound like sheet metal snappg, " Van Kirk told The New York Tim on the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima raid. "The Enola Gay lands at Tian, Northern Mariana Islands after s bombg missn at Hiroshima. The crew of the Enola Gay bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima is now only the history books.

ENOLA GAY

” (Read more Enola Gay stori. On Augt 6, 1945, the crew of a modified Boeg B-29 Superfortrs named Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ed warfare, lled “Ltle Boy, ” on the cy of Hiroshima, Japan.

As a new and adly weapon, an atomic bomber, Enola Gay facilated a turng pot human history as hered the dawn of the Atomic Age and the threat of nuclear war.

HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON

Tibbets and his crew took off om Tian  Enola Gay at 2:45 am on Augt 6, 1945.

Upon visual lotn of Hiroshima, Tom Ferebee aimed for the cy center and Enola Gay dropped the “Ltle Boy” bomb om 31, 000 feet at 9:15 am. After “Ltle Boy” left the forward bomb bay, Enola Gay lurched upward, and Tibbets iated a high angle evasive manver to get as far away om Hiroshima as possible.

WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?

” Enola Gay land back at Tian 12 hours later at approximately 3 pm. Enola Gay tail gunner Bob Caron took this picture of the cloud of smoke billowg 20, 000 feet above Hiroshima after the explosn of the Ltle Boy atomic bomb on Augt 6, 1945. The history and memory of Enola Gay and s part the atomic attacks on Japan, and their effect on endg the war the Pacific and the nuclear tensns of the Cold War, reflects differg viewpots.

The Smhsonian has been at the center of bat over those differg perspectiv terms of the terpretatn and public display of Enola Gay. Air Force the late 1940s, Enola Gay remaed storage for s. Enola Gay was to be the central artifact a planned exhibn at the Mm examg the atomic bombgs durg the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

The Boeg B-29 Superfortrs Enola Gay is now on display at the Steven F. In a revised exhibn, Enola Gay’s forward felage and bomb bay, two eng, a propeller, and other ponents, cludg a activated Ltle Boy bomb, went on display the Natnal Mall Buildg om June 1995 to May 1998. Udvar-Hazy Center opened December 2003, the fully-assembled Enola Gay went on permanent display the World War II Aviatn display area the Boeg Aviatn Hangar.

WHERE IS THE ENOLA GAY TODAY?

The display of the Enola Gay has generated a variety of rpons rangg om public protts  1995 and 2003 to opposg pots of view exprsed  alternative exhibns, petns, and reports, and ntu to serve as a se study  prentg history the public sphere that is vigoroly discsed and bated to this day. Enola Gay on display the Boeg Aviatn Hangar of the Steven F. The flight of the Enola Gay on Augt 6, 1945, signifi an end and a begng terms of our evolvg unrstandg of technology and warfare the twentieth century.

Theodore Van Kirk was 93 years Kirk was the navigator aboard the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortrs bomber that dropped an atomic bomb lled "Ltle Boy" on the Japane cy of Hiroshima on Aug.

Seventy-five years ago, the Uned Stat dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, brgg an end to a long and vastatg World War II and makg the Enola Gay, the B-29 that livered , one of the most famo history. The Enola Gay, known only as No. He handpicked the plane the night before the missn, to the surprise of s crew, and had his mother’s name -- Enola Gay -- pated on s si.