MILITARY PERSONNEL

Charles Sweeney

1919 - 2004

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Charles William Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) 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 August 9, 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Sweeney has received more than 693,759 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Charles Sweeney is the 449th most popular military personnel (up from 673rd in 2019), the 1,252nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,007th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Charles Sweeney ranks 449 out of 2,058Before him are Muqali, Vjekoslav Luburić, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Armando Diaz, Guillaume Brune, and Xiahou Yuan. After him are Karl Mack von Leiberich, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Viktor Lutze, George I Rákóczi, Xu Chu, and Ante Gotovina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Charles Sweeney ranks 43Before him are Mordechai Anielewicz, Jennifer Jones, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jackie Robinson, Pete Seeger, and Georges Duby. After him are Abdel Hakim Amer, Godfrey Hounsfield, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Siad Barre, Donald J. Cram, and Chavela Vargas. Among people deceased in 2004, Charles Sweeney ranks 40Before him are Jerry Goldsmith, Edward B. Lewis, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Andriyan Nikolayev, John Vane, and Theo van Gogh. After him are Godfrey Hounsfield, Robert Merle, Gérard Debreu, Ko Yong-hui, Nicolai Ghiaurov, and Herbert C. Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Sweeney ranks 1,252 out of 20,380Before him are Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Claudia Goldin (1946), Evander Holyfield (1962), Jacque Fresco (1916), Marvin Minsky (1927), and Edward C. Tolman (1886). After him are Ethan Hawke (1970), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), James Irwin (1930), Mike Shinoda (1977), Tecumseh (1768), and Jaco Pastorius (1951).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Charles Sweeney ranks 15Before him are Matthew C. Perry (1794), Omar Bradley (1893), John J. Pershing (1860), Benedict Arnold (1741), Richard Winters (1918), and Yonatan Netanyahu (1946). After him are Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), William Westmoreland (1914), Stonewall Jackson (1824), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), Creighton Abrams (1914), and Paul Revere (1735).