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- Birth nameCharles William Sweeney
- Charles W. Sweeney was born on December 27, 1919 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for The Beginning or the End (1947) and The World at War (1973). He was married to Dorothy W. McElhiney. He died on July 15, 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseDorothy W. McElhiney (divorced, 10 children)
- Pilot of the B-29 bomber 'Bock's Car', which dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II.
- Was the pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan in the last days of World War II
- Piloted the B-29 airplane called 'Bock's Car' that dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed 'Fat Man' on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9,1945, in the final days of World War II. It killed 70,000 people.
- Was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 1956. At that time he was the youngest man in the Air Force to reach that rank. He was 36 years old.
- He was 25 years old when he piloted the B-29 bomber that attacked Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. This was three days after the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and six days before their surrender was announced by Imperial Japan (on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945). surrendered.
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