<P> Major General Charles W. Sweeney ( December 27 , 1919 -- July 16 , 2004 ) was an officer in the U.S. 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 U.S. Air Force , eventually rising to the rank of Major General . </P>
<P> Major General Charles W. Sweeney ( December 27 , 1919 -- July 16 , 2004 ) was an officer in the U.S. 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 U.S. Air Force , eventually rising to the rank of Major General . </P>
who was the pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb on nagasaki
who was the pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb on nagasaki
Major General Charles W. Sweeney
Major General Charles W. Sweeney