Sweeney’s flight had fuel problems from the start, and clouds and smoke were covering the mission’s primary target, the industrial city of Kokura.Īfter making several dangerous passes over Kokura, Sweeney abandoned the primary target for Nagasaki. But its mission was more harrowing for the crew. “I hope my missions were the last ones of their kind that will ever be flown.”īock’s Car, now on display at the Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio, is not as well-known as Tibbets’ Enola Gay. I just wanted the war to be over, so we could get back home to our loved ones,” Sweeney told the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass., in 1995. Veterans’ protests, including Sweeney’s, forced changes in the exhibit, which originally stressed the suffering of the Japanese and questioned the necessity of the nuclear bombing. The renewed debate was sparked by a controversial Smithsonian Institution exhibit planned for the 50th anniversary of the bombings.
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