Where did the bomber flown by Frederick Bock famously drop an atomic bomb on?
Charles Sweeney 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.
Flak Bait Flak-Bait is a Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft that holds the record within the United States Army Air Forces for the number of bombing missions survived during World War II. Manufactured in Baltimore, Maryland as a B-26B-25-MA, by Martin, it was completed in April, 1943 and christened "Flak-Bait" by its first assigned pilot, James J. Farrell, who adapted the nickname of a family dog, "Flea Bait". "Flak-Bait" was assigned to the 449th Bombardment Squadron, 322d Bombardment Group stationed in eastern England.