Several of them are no longer alive, they include the last surviving member of the crew of the Enola Gay - navigator Dutch Van Kirk who died in July 2014.
Made on location in Hiroshima and the USA, it features unique interviews with eyewitnesses who have seldom, if ever, spoken about the experience. This documentary gives a minute-by-minute account of what happened on that fateful day, through the testimony of people who were there and rarely-seen archive footage from the time. All three planes were shot down within a few years and only one crew member is still alive today, a 95-year-old man. A navigator accompanies the mission for the Army Air Corps. Up to 80,000 people - 30 per cent of the population - were killed by the blast and resulting firestorm and over 70,000 were injured. How Many Of The Enola Gay Crew Are Still Alive Lieutenant Russell Gackenbach was second lieutenant in the U.S. This documentary marks the 70th anniversary of the day when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by a Boeing B-29 USAF Superfortress bomber, nicknamed Enola Gay after the pilot's mother. August 6th 1945 marked the start of a terrifying new episode in human history.
