Theodore VanKirk dead at 93

Last surviving member of crew to drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima

BY KATE BRUMBACK
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CANADA/THE WORLD

ATLANTA — The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of World War II and forcing the world into the atomic age, has died in the southern state of Georgia. Theodore VanKirk, also known as “Dutch,”...

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