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He will be buried in Northumberland next to his wife, who died in 1975. In a 2005 interview with the AP, VanKirk said his World War II experience showed that wars and atomic bombs don't settle anything, and he'd like to see the weapons abolished.Ī funeral service was scheduled for VanKirk on August 5 in his hometown of Northumberland, Pennsylvania. 'I know he was recognized as a war hero, but we just knew him as a great father,' he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Tom VanKirk said he and his siblings are very fortunate to have had such a wonderful father who remained active until the end of his life. The bomb killed 140,000 in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki three days later. VanKirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress aircraft that dropped 'Little Boy' - the world's first atomic bomb - over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. Theodore VanKirk, also known as 'Dutch,' died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Stone Mountain, Georgia, his son Tom VanKirk said. The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia. VanKirk grew to believe that nuclear arms should be abolished despite helping make the Enola Gay famous for dropping the first nuke Changed his mind: Pictured here at 84, the navigator and last living crewmember of the plane that dropped the world's first atomic bomb Theodore 'Dutch' VanKirk died Monday at 93.