Enola Gay

Remembering Hiroshima: 70 years since the atomic bomb was dropped (pics + vid)

Published by Protothema on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 11:40

The 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft on Hiroshima, Japan, was commemorated on August 6. Thoussands of lanterns were released on Hiroshima’s Motoyasu river after a ceremony, attended by Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, was held at Hiroshima’s memorial park.

Last airman in US bombing of Hiroshima dies: Media

Published by Hurriyet on Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:35

The last surviving crewman of the Enola Gay – the U.S. plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan near the end of World War II – has died.

Theodore Van Kirk, also known as “Dutch,” died on July 28 of natural causes at the Park Springs Retirement Community in Stone Mountain, Georgia, NBC television reported. Van Kirk was 93.