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Just checked that in WW1, over 40 million people died.
In WW2 over 80 million died.

Webster says this perfectly:

Theodore Van Kirk, last Enola Gay crew member, dead at 93




The last surviving member of the U.S. crew that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, hastening the end of Second World War and moving the world into the atomic age, has died.

Theodore Van Kirk died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Georgia, his son Tom Van Kirk said. He was 93.

Van Kirk flew nearly 60 bombing missions, but it was a single mission in the Pacific that secured him a place in history. He was 24 years old when he served as navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb deployed in wartime over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

'The whole World War II experience shows that wars don't settle anything. And atomic weapons don't settle anything. I personally think there shouldn't be any atomic bombs in the world — I'd like to see them all abolished'
- Theodore Van Kirk, last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew





Source:The Canadian Press