Charles Sweeney
Mayor Jenderal Charles W. Sweeney (27 Desember 1919 – 16 Juli 2004) adalah seorang perwira dalam Pasukan Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat pada Perang Dunia II dan pilot yang menerbangkan Bockscar yang mengangkut bom atom Fat Man ke kota Jepang Nagasaki pada 9 Agustus 1945.
| Charles W. Sweeney | |
|---|---|
 Gambar USAF | |
| Lahir | 27 Desember 1919 Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Meninggal | 16 Juli 2004 (umur 84) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Pengabdian |  Amerika Serikat |
| Dinas/cabang |  Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat Korps Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat |
| Lama dinas | 1941–1976 |
| Pangkat |  Mayor Jenderal |
| Komandan | Skuadron Bombardemen ke-393 Sayap Penyerang Taktikal ke-102 |
| Perang/pertempuran | Perang Dunia II Pengeboman Atom Hiroshima Pengeboman Atom Nagasaki |
| Penghargaan | Silver Star Air Medal |
Grup Komposit ke-509 sunting
Sweeney menjadi instruktur dalam proyek pelatihan misi atom, Proyek Alberta, di Pangkalan Udara Tentara Wendover, Utah.
Lihat pula sunting
- Paul Tibbets, teman sejawat Sweeney pada misi yang menjatuhkan Little boy di Hiroshima.
Referensi sunting
Daftar pustaka sunting
- Brooks, Lester. Behind Japan's Surrender: Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
- Grayling, A.C. Among the Dead Cities. London: Bloomsbury, 2006. ISBN 0-7475-7671-8.
- Miller, Merle and Abe Spitzer. We Dropped the A-Bomb. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1946.
- Olivi, Lt.Col.USAF(Ret) Fred J. Decision At Nagasaki: The Mission That Almost Failed. Privately Printed, 1999. ISBN 0-9678747-0-X.
- Sweeney, Maj.Gen.USAF(Ret) Charles with James A. Antonucci and Marion K. Antonucci. War's End: an Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission. New York: Avon Books, 1997. ISBN 0-380-97349-9.
- Tomatsu, Shomei. 11:02 Nagasaki. Tokyo, Japan: Shashin Dojinsha, 1966.
Pranala luar sunting
- Annotated bibliography for Charles Sweeney from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Diarsipkan 2006-08-28 di Wayback Machine.
- Official USAF biography BG Charles W. Sweeney di www.af.mil Galat: URL arsip tidak dikenal (diarsipkan tanggal 20040208224517)
- Reflections from above: an American pilot's perspective on the mission which dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki
- Eyewitness account of atomic bombing over Nagasaki, by William Laurence, New York Times
- Sweeney explains to Reed Irvine how, incredibly, he and Paul Tibbetts became the first Americans into Japan after the bombing di YouTube.