ENLARGE
Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the navigator on the B29 Superfortress that dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, talks about the flight of the Enola Gay at his home in Stone Mountain, Ga., July 18, 2005. It was a perfect mission, Van Kirk recalled. Under cover of night, he guided the bomber nearly exactly as planned _ the plane was just 15 seconds behind schedule.
Sixty years after the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, time has caught up with all but three of the 12 crew members
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