War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney
Jun 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Eric Jason Martin
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On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion . . .
The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs. Now updated with a new epilogue from the coauthor, Sweeney's book is an extraordinary chronicle of the months of careful planning and training; the setbacks, secrecy, and snafus; and the nerve-shattering final seconds and the astonishing aftermath of what is arguably the most significant single event in modern history: The employment of an atomic weapon during wartime.
The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs. Now updated with a new epilogue from the coauthor, Sweeney's book is an extraordinary chronicle of the months of careful planning and training; the setbacks, secrecy, and snafus; and the nerve-shattering final seconds and the astonishing aftermath of what is arguably the most significant single event in modern history: The employment of an atomic weapon during wartime.
On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary ...
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Charles W. Sweeney (1920 - 2004) Charles W. Sweeney was born in 1920. He graduated from North Quincy High School and entered the United States Air Force on April 28, 1941, as an Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet. At the time of the drop on Nagasaki, Sweeney was on assignement as Commanding Officer of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was chosen as mission commander and piloted the B-29 bomber that attacked Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, three days after the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a mission in which he flew the plane that recorded the drop. It was the first bomb Sweeney ever dropped on an enemy target and he was awarded the silver star. He was 25. Sweeney wrote a book defending the bombings and describing the event in, "War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission". Sweeney became a brigadier general in 1956, at the time the youngest man in the Air Force to reach that rank. He retired in 1976 with the rank of Major General. Sweeney died at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston at the age of 84.
Charles W. Sweeney (1920 - 2004) Charles W. Sweeney was born in 1920. He graduated from North Quincy High School and entered the United States Air Force on April 28, 1941, as an Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet. At the time of the drop on Nagasaki, Sweeney was on assignement as Commanding Officer of...
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