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The bomb killed 140,000 in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki three days later. USAF Operations Order No.35 was completed. 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. After 12 hours of mission time the Enola Gay and her crew touched down on Runway A at Tinian. 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. 2nd Lieutenant Morris Jeppson, Ordnance Expert Morris Jeppson was only 23 years old when he was assigned to accompany the atomic bomb on the Enola. (AP Photo/The Macon Telegraph, Beau Cabell, File) Stiborik died of a heart attack in 1984 at age 69. The B-29 bomber stayed airborne, hovering above a terrifying. 6, 1945, a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants. He was the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew. A fter the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. Tom VanKirk says his 93-year-old father died at the retirement home where he lived in Georgia on Monday, July 28, 2014. The navigator for the Enola Gay spoke about his experience guiding the aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb. In this file photo, Theodore "Dutch'' VanKirk visits a veteran's group at the Golden Corral in Macon, Ga. ATLANTA - The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.