# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-r-caron
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:38.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-r-caron"
name: "George R. Caron"
slug: "george-r-caron"
description: "Technical Sergeant George Robert Caron was the tail gunner, the only defender of the twelve crewmen, aboard the B-29 Enola Gay during the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Facing the rear of the B-29, his vantage point made him the first airborne person to witness the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima."
tagline: "US Army Air Force soldier"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_R._Caron.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1919-10-31"
deathDate: "1995-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.688014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Caron"
    title: "George R. Caron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%B1._%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جورج ر. كارون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Caron"
    title: "George R. Caron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Caron"
    title: "George R. Caron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Caron"
    title: "George R. Caron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Caron"
    title: "George R. Caron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101846"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump