July 18, 2004

Nagasaki pilot obit

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 Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. General Sweeney, who lived in Milton, Mass., was 84.
Read the rest in the NY Times.

Posted by David on July 18, 2004 9:20 PM

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