# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-sweeney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:22:37.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-sweeney"
name: "Charles Sweeney"
slug: "charles-sweeney"
description: "Charles William Sweeney was an officer in the United States 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 9 August 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 United States Air Force, eventually rising to the rank of major general."
tagline: "United States general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Sweeney_(48591893356).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1919-12-27"
deathDate: "2004-07-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.99801066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump