广岛原子弹最后一位机组人员离世
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px][b]The last surviving member of the US air crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia aged 93.[/b][/size][/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px][b]在日本广岛投放原子弹的美国空军机组人员,其中最后一名生者近日逝于乔治亚州,享年93岁。[/b][/size][/font]
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[color=#0000FF]The Enola Gay was named after the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets.[/color]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Theodore Van Kirk, also known as "Dutch", was 24 when he became the navigator of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/97533.html]bomb[/url].[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The attack on Japan on 6 August 1945 killed an estimated 140,000 people. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Van Kirk said he had "no regrets" about the mission and defended its [b]morality(道德,品行)[/b], saying it helped to end the Second World War.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]His son, Tom Van Kirk, paid tribute to his father, who he said remained active until the end of his life.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]"I know he was recognized as a war hero, but we just knew him as a great father", he told AP.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]Mr Van Kirk died of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived, his son said.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]He had been the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew since 2010 when Morris Jeppson, the assistant weaponeer, died.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]His funeral is expected to take place next week in Pennsylvania. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy", was the first [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/97533.html]nuclear[/url] weapon used in warfare. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=14px]The only other instance came three days later when the crew of the Bockscar dropped the "Fat Man" bomb on another Japanese city, Nagasaki, killing an estimated 80,000.[/size][/font]
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