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Charles Sweeney

Charles W. Sweeney piloted the plane that dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb.

Major Charles W. Sweeney was the commander of the B-29 bomber that dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. The bomber was nicknamed Bockscar. It was named after its regular command pilot, Frederick Bock.

Bockscar was used in four additional non-atomic combat bombing missions over Japan in July and August 1945.