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My True Course : Dutch Van Kirk Northumberland to Hiroshima by Suzanne Simon Dietz (2012, Hardcover)

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 My True Course from his hometown 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."

LeafCats
378
Lc Classification Number
D767.25.H6d396 2012
Reviews
This extensive biography of Dutch Van Kirk synthesizes the significant historical events taking place during his life to give readers an unusual insight into one man's thoughts and experiences leading up to an important role in helping to end World War II. --Col. Carroll V. Glines, USAF (Ret), author of The Doolittle Raid: America's Daring First Strike Against Japan
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2012-900926
Dewey Decimal
940.54/81092 B
Dewey Edition
23

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