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Paul Tibbetts (1915-2007) Pilot of the “Enola Gay” which dropped 1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945. Charles Sweeney (1919-2004) US Army Air Force officer, piloted B-29 “Bockscar” carrying the “Fat Man” atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan Aug. 9, 1945. 10 x 8 B/W photograph showing a smiling Sweeney just after returning to Tinian following the Nagasaki mission, being warmly greeted by a smiling Tibbets, his commander. Rare, signed photograph of the pilots of both WW II atomic bomb missions. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the detonation of two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 by the United States. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Pre-Certified by Autograph COA, Number PC273868
