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Charles W. Sweeney (* 27. Dezember 1919 in Lowell, Massachusetts; † 15. Juli 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts) war ein Brigadegeneral der amerikanischen Luftwaffe. Er war Pilot des B-29 -Bombers Bockscar, von welchem die Atombombe Fat Man auf die japanische Stadt Nagasaki abgeworfen wurde.
Charles William Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
4. Dez. 2021 · Major Charles W. Sweeney (1919–2004) flog die B-29, die am 9. August 1945 Nagasaki angriff. Quelle: Getty Images. Darauf zumindest hatte sich der Kommandeur der US-Luftstreitkräfte im...
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Charles W. Sweeney, a retired Air Force major general who was the only pilot to observe from the cockpit both nuclear blasts that devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and...
19. Juli 2004 · Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who flew the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the second atomic strike on Japan in the final days of World War II, died Friday at...
18. Juli 2004 · Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who flew the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the second atomic strike on Japan in the final days of World War II, died Friday at...
The aircraft was piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney, with Capt. Kermit Beahan serving as bombardier and Manhattan Project veteran Comdr. Frederick Ashworth in the role of weaponeer. Their payload was Fat Man, the plutonium-fueled implosion device similar to the bomb detonated at the Trinity test.
