Theodore Van Kirk, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (died 2014)

Theodore Van Kirk

US Army Air Forces navigator; recipient of the Silver Star

Theodore Jerome "Dutch" Van Kirk was a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces, best known as the navigator of the Enola Gay when it dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Upon the death of fellow crewman Morris Jeppson on March 30, 2010, Van Kirk became the last…