Charles Sweeney

Charles William Sweeney 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 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 United States Air Force, eventually rising to the rank of major general.

27 December 1919

Born on the same birth day (27 December): Andrejs Perepļotkins • Bruno Bobak • Buddy Boudreaux • Chloe Bridges • Cokie Roberts • Dahntay Jones • David Knopfler • Jesse Williams (high jumper) • Johann Melchior Roos • Jérôme d'Ambrosio • Kevin Ollie • Larisa Latynina • Max Lindholm • Mike Pinder • Pascale Dorcelus • Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania • Prince Frederick Henry Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau • Sherri Steinhauer • Sydney Greenstreet • Terry Bozzio

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