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(FILES) In this March 25, 2006 file photo, the restored Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress airplane used to drop the first atomic bomb in WWII 06 August 1945 on Hiroshima, Japan, is seen on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Virginia. 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 July 29, 2014. 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. The plane dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima at 8:15 am August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people, more than half the population of the city. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER / FILES
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Chantilly, Virginia, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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KAREN BLEIER |
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30 Iulie 2014 |
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