The Last Enola Gay Crew Member Dies

The last surviving member of the crew of the Enola Gay bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, has died. Navigator Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk died last month in an Atlanta retirement home at the age of 93. He said years later that he felt the bomb was necessary to defeat Japan. Before he died, Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, said that he had no second thoughts and would do it again. The co-pilot, Robert Lewis, wrote in the plane’s log: “My God, what have we done?” Too bad the Air Force is today filled with Christian pilots who wouldn’t think twice about nuking on command. Hey, “I’m just following orders,” they will say.

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7:02 pm on August 7, 2014