About Charles Sweeney
Charles William Sweeney (27 December 1919 – 16 July 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 9 August 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 United States Air Force, eventually rising to the rank of major general. Sweeney became an instructor in the atomic missions training project, Project Alberta, at Wendover Army Airfield, Utah. On 4 May 1945, Sweeney became commander of the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, the combat element of.
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