Last Hiroshima bomber crewman dies
The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in the US.
Tom VanKirk says his father, 93-year-old Theodore VanKirk, died on Monday in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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185 OFFERThe last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in the US.
Tom VanKirk says his father, 93-year-old Theodore VanKirk, died on Monday in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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