Theodore Van Kirk, Last Survivor of Enola Gay's Crew, Dies

The last crew member of the Enola Gayβ€”the bomber which infamously dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan near the end of WWIIβ€”has died in Georgia, NBC News reported. Theodore Van Kirk, died Monday of natural causes at the Park Springs Retirement Community in Stone Mountain at the age of 93, a manager there told NBC Atlanta affiliate WXIA. "I know he was recognized as a war hero, but we just knew him as a great father," Kirk's son said in a telephone interview with the AP on Tuesday.

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