The last surviving crewman of the Enola Gay - the US plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan near the end of World War II - has died, US media reported Tuesday. Theodore Van Kirk, also known as "Dutch," died Monday of natural causes at the Park Springs Retirement Community in Stone Mountain, Georgia, NBC television reported. Van Kirk was 93. Twenty-four years old at the time, Van Kirk was the navigator on the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress, one of a crew of 12 airmen.
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