Enola Gay navigator has 'no regrets'

As the Japanese city of Hiroshima marks the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack, a member of the US crew that dropped the weapon talks to the BBC's KRISTIN WILSON about his memories of that day.

To his family and friends, the elderly man in a little retirement community in Georgia is just "Dutch".  But 65 years ago on Friday, Lt Theodore Van Kirk was flight navigator for the Enola Gay on its mission to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 

n the morning of August 6 1945 he, two of the closest friends and nine other Americans took off for the flight that launched the world into the nuclear age.

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