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Enola Gay: Last Surviving Crew Member visits Willow Run
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08/13/2008 08:55:11 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Van_Kirk For those who had the opportunity to visit the "Thunder Over Michigan" Air Show and had some extra time on their hands, they had the occasion to see and spend a few minutes with "Dutch," the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew. For me, it was being "with a part of history." (I've incuded a generic link to a snapshot biography.) As he sat at a table in the "guest tent," I looked across the tarmac and tried to picture in my mind that mission from Tinian to Japan and back. On that same tarmac, well prior to that long-ago historic event, another B-29 visited the FO WR plant for the first time, an occasion which signaled the "changing of the guard" in the Pacific. Standing on historic ground with a person who was involved in such history was quite an experience! Best Regards! Steven
Best Regards!
Steven P. Puhl Willow Run Historian (RET.)
Home of 8685 Ford B-24 Liberators Life Member: Yankee Air Museum
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