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Major General Charles W. Sweeney 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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December 27th, 1919 in Lowell / Died: Jul 16th, 2004 - heart ailment
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2005/01/15
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2008/01/04
New Response (OLD!) (Success): Signed nose art of Bocks Car. Used my SASE.
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