'I've Never Apologised for What We Did and I Never Will ..We Not Only Saved American Lives, but Japanese As Well' ; Hiroshima 65 Years On.. Last Survivor of Crew That Dropped Bomb
Sunday Mirror › August 31, 2010
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HE is now a frail old man who spends his days tending his roses. Yet 65 years ago this Friday Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk took part in a mission which changed the world forever.
Dutch was the navigator on Enola Gay, guiding the B-29 Superfortress bomber to a point 31,000ft above Hiroshima to deliver the deadliest weapon man had ever built.See the full content of this document
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'I've Never Apologised for What We Did and I Never Will ..We Not Only Saved American Lives, but Japanese As Well' ; Hiroshima 65 Years On.. Last Survivor of Crew That Dropped Bomb
More than 200,00 people were killed when the world's first atomic bomb exploded. Yet 89-year-old Dutch, the last remaining survivor of Enola Gay's flight crew, has never had any doubts that it was the right thing to do.
"Do I regret what we did that day...See the full content of this document
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