“One day, those of us who fought the war - who were eye witnesses to it - will no longer be here to set the record straight. He was prompted by revisionist accounts at the fiftieth anniversary of the ending of World War II to write about his experiences in the book War’s End.
(Ret.)Īt age 25, Charles Sweeney was the only pilot to be part of the atomic missions at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Concord Oral History Program - Major General Charles W.