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Dutch Van Kirk: Enola Gay Navigator Discusses Atomic Bomb Drop on Hiroshima [14:36]
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| August 6, 2025
| Witness to War
Posted on 09/04/2026 9:35:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Having been chosen as a navigator to deliver the atomic bomb, Dutch Van Kirk recalls the precautions that were taken to ensure his aircraft would not be harmed by the blast. Comparing the differences between the B-17 aircraft he flew in over Europe and the B-29 he flew in delivering the first atomic bomb to Hiroshima, Dutch gives a detailed account of his mission on August 6, 1945. Dutch Van Kirk: Enola Gay Navigator
Discusses Atomic Bomb Drop on Hiroshima | 14:36
Witness to War | 526,511 views | August 6, 2025
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: dutchvankirk; enolagay; godsgravesglyphs; hiroshima
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posted on
09/04/2026 9:35:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
09/04/2026 9:36:54 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
No Regrets. Japan was fighting and waging Total War.
And it took the Total effect of A-Bombs to get Japan to stop and admit defeat and surrender, unconditional.
To: SunkenCiv
Dutch was 24 years old when he did this. Compare that to so many of today’s 24 year olds.
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posted on
09/04/2026 10:24:32 PM PDT
by
ryderann
To: SunkenCiv
Thank you Dutch, after about nine months in combat in Europe, my dad was slated for the invasion of the Japanese home islands.
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posted on
09/04/2026 10:45:40 PM PDT
by
nuke_road_warrior
(Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 39 years.)
To: SunkenCiv
My dad would have been part of the invasion. If such I might be here today. The atomic bomb and the second convinced Japan to surrender. They thought we had many others at the ready. We did not. We did have a continuous assembly going and, in a few months, could have atomized them with will.
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posted on
09/04/2026 11:39:40 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
To: SunkenCiv
My dad was in Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. He was 21. Also in the Korean War and did 2 tours in Vietnam. Definitely a different breed of men in those days.
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posted on
09/04/2026 11:54:44 PM PDT
by
albie
To: cpdiii; Texan4Life; ryderann; nuke_road_warrior
Yup. 45 cities were burned to the ground via conventional incidiary bombing.
No surrender.
Then Hiroshima.
Still no surrender.
Took a second a-bomb.
In addition, they didn’t have any complaint coming.
If there hadn’t been surrender at that point, more a-bombs were in the pipeline for a cadence reaching out to about December ‘45.
After the final defeat, the rest of Asia would have cheered, then visited long enough to piss on the ashes.
If anything, Japan got off light.
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posted on
09/04/2026 11:59:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: albie
It’s easy to stand in awe of that generation, and other earlier generations for that matter.
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posted on
09/05/2026 12:09:10 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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