WASHINGTON: The lone remaining crewman of the Enola Gay -- which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan near the end of WWII -- has died in Georgia, US media reported Tuesday.

Theodore Van Kirk, also known as "Dutch," died Monday of natural causes at the Park Springs Retirement Community in Stone Mountain, Georgia, NBC television reported. Van Kirk was 93.

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