One Hundred Years of Flight USAF Chronology ... - The Air University

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., led the
atomic attack on Hiroshima.
1945
August 9: Three days after the destruction of Hiroshima, Maj. Charles W.
Sweeney and his crew, flying a B–29 called Bock’s Car, bombed Nagasaki
in the second and last atomic bomb attack, which largely destroyed the
city and killed at least 35,000 people.
Boeing B–29 Superfortresses dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan.
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