Charles Sweeney Military person

Major General Charles W. Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the U.S. 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. Separating from active duty at the end of World War II, he later became an officer in the Massachusetts Air National Guard as the Army Air Forces transitioned to an independent U.S. Air Force, eventually rising to the rank of Major General.

Personal facts

Charles Sweeney
Birth dateDecember 27, 1919
Birth place
Lowell Massachusetts
Date of deathJuly 16, 2004
Place of death
Boston

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Military person

award
Silver Star
Air Medal
military operations
World War II
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
military branch
United States Army Air Corps
United States Air Force
military command
102nd Tactical Fighter Wing
393rd Bombardment Squadron
service start1941
service end1976

Charles Sweeney on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Sweeney,+Charles
  2. http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7317
  3. http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hiroshima/Nagasaki.shtml
  4. http://www.mputtre.com/id39.html
  5. http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/earns/olivi.html