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.
