Who was the pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb on nagasaki?
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Charles Sweeney Charles W. Sweeney Major Charles W. Sweeney
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plane that dropped the bomb on nagasaki
Bockscar Enola Gay Charles Sweeney Paul Tibbets Fat Man Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Little Boy Kermit Beahan Big Stink (aircraft) Nagasaki
Sweeney, <b>dropped</b> a Fat Man nuclear <b>bomb</b> with a blast yield equivalent to 21 
kilotons of TNT over the city of <b>Nagasaki</b>. About 44% of the city was destroyed;&nbsp;... The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay 
Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during 
the final stages of World War II, piloted by Tibbets and Robert A. Lewis it became 
the first <b>aircraft</b> to <b>drop</b> an atomic <b>bomb</b>. ... In contrast to the Hiroshima mission, 
the <b>Nagasaki</b> mission has been&nbsp;... However, a small opening in the clouds allowed Bockscar&#39;s bombardier to verify 
the target as <b>Nagasaki</b>. As the crew had been ordered to <b>drop the bomb</b> visually&nbsp;... Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier 
general in the ... He flew the lead <b>plane</b> in the first American daylight heavy 
bomber mission against ... Group, which would conduct the bombings of 
Hiroshima and <b>Nagasaki</b>. ... I was instructed to perform a military mission to <b>drop</b> 
<b>the bomb</b>. &quot;Fat Man&quot; was the codename for the nuclear <b>bomb</b> that was detonated over the 
Japanese city of <b>Nagasaki</b> ... The only Allied <b>aircraft</b> considered capable of 
carrying the Fat Man without major modification were the British Avro ... Without 
the availability of the B-29, <b>dropping the bomb</b> would likely have been impossible
. Responsibility for the timing of the second <b>bombing</b> was ... by Sweeney using 
Bockscar as the <b>drop airplane</b>. &quot;Little Boy&quot; was the codename for the type of atomic <b>bomb dropped</b> on the 
Japanese city of ... It was less powerful than the Fat Man, which was <b>dropped</b> on 
<b>Nagasaki</b>, but the damage and the number of victims at ... using instruments 
<b>dropped</b> by parachute from a <b>plane</b> flying in formation with the one that <b>dropped</b> 
<b>the bomb</b>. Kermit K. Beahan (August 9, 1918 – March 9, 1989) was a career officer in the 
United States Air ... The mission to <b>bomb Nagasaki</b> was conducted on Beahan&#39;s 
27th birthday. ... &quot;Kermit Beahan, 70, Bombardier On <b>Plane That Dropped</b> A-
<b>Bomb</b>&quot; New York Times &middot; &quot;Near Failure at <b>Nagasaki</b>&quot;, AIR FORCE Magazine, July 
2011&nbsp;... Big Stink – later renamed Dave&#39;s Dream – was a United States Army Air Forces 
Boeing B-29-40-MO Superfortress bomber (Victor number 90) that participated in 
the atomic <b>bomb</b> attack on <b>Nagasaki</b>, Japan on August 9, 1945. Assigned to the 
393d <b>Bomb</b> Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used ... On 1 July 1946, 
Dave&#39;s Dream <b>dropped</b> the &quot;Fat Man&quot;-type atomic <b>bomb</b> used&nbsp;... ... of 136 U.S. <b>planes</b> which <b>dropped</b> a total of ... and six <b>bombs</b> landing at the 
<b>Nagasaki</b>&nbsp;...
Major General Charles W. Sweeney
Charles Sweeney