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My True Course

My True Course

Dutch Van Kirk Northumberland to Hiroshima

by Suzanne Simon Dietz
Hardback
Publication Date: 09/04/2012

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Look out your window and you can see him; he looks like the boy next door, a Depression-era kid. The now ninety-year-old gentleman with a glint in his eye, a remarkable memory, and a sharp wit became in 2011 the only living crewman from the Boeing Silverplate B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945. A debate continued for more than half a century with his former commanding officer, Paul Tibbets, until his death about how Dutch Van Kirk came to navigate the Enola Gay from Tinian in the Southwest Pacific Ocean to Honshu, one of the main islands of Japan. The answer is part of Dutch's biographical chronicle from his home-town Northumberland, Pennsylvania, to the Pacific Theatre. Letters from home, his own correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, military orders, presidential speeches, and interviews of family members and others from the "greatest generation" build the chapters of his story.
ISBN:
9780692016763
9780692016763
Category:
Biography: historical
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
09-04-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Red Gremlin Press LLC
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
600
Dimensions (mm):
152x229x46mm
Weight:
0.86kg

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