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Charles Sweeney
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.
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