honorific_prefix caption serviceyears branch death_date death_place birth_place allegiance image_size placeofburial_label battles birth_date nickname rank image article_title name
captain van ferebee march 2015 kirk -lrb- left -rrb- with tibbets , and 1941 & ndash ; 1946 united states army air forces 28 july 2014 stone mountain , georgia northumberland , pennsylvania united states of america 250 place of burial world war ii 27 february 1921 ` dutch ' major van kirk tibbets , and ferebee.jpg theodore van kirk
 theodore van kirk
theodore van kirk

theodore `` dutch '' van kirk -lrb- february 27 , 1921 -- july 28 , 2014 -rrb- was a navigator of the united states army air forces , best known as the navigator of the `` enola gay '' when it dropped the first atomic bomb on hiroshima .
with the death of fellow crewman morris jeppson -lrb- who died on march 30 , 2010 -rrb- , van kirk became the last surviving member of the `` enola gay '' crew .
he died four years later on july 28 , 2014 .
