RIP Gay Navigator

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/30vankirk.html

Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk, the navigator and last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the last days of World War II, died on Monday in Stone Mountain, Ga. He was 93.

 

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RIP.

Adddendum -- Stone Mountain, Ga... where Jake "The Snake" Roberts hailed, if I recall my wrestling fanboi looser days correctly.

 

There's a very good chance dropping the bombs saved my father's life. And thus made mine possible. RIP.

 

I was actually looking something up about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and considering the number of POWs held throughout the country (particularly near larger cities), it is amazing how few POWs died in the bombings. It's probably a story nobody is rushing to tell since there were allied deaths (though far fewer than one beach landing, let alone hitting the main island) but there was great care taken into limiting exposure.

 

And the immortal Kenneth Ellen Parcell.

 

It's a hell of a pinpoint operation, it's a hell of a pinpoint operation.

 

There was another thing I read in that after the bombs were dropped, several POWs who,had survived were taken by angry Japanese citizens and stoned to death.