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The crew of the Enola Gay was commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr. and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Major Charles Sweeney commanded the crew of the Bockscar, which dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

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