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Home Town Miami, Florida
Last Address Orlando, Florida
Date of Passing May 23, 2009
Location of Interment Miami Memorial Park - Miami, Florida
He was the co-pilot of Bockscar when it dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki Aug 9, 1945. Three days earlier he had flown as co-pilot on The Great Artiste which was a support aircraft on the Hiroshima A-bomb mission, thus being a witness to both bomb blasts. He was the normal aircraft commander of The Great Artiste but relinguished that position on the Aug 6 mission to his 393rd Bomb Gp. CO, Maj. Charles Sweeney, who was also his pilot on Aug 9.
