Kermit Beahan

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Kermit K. Beahan was the bombardier on the American B-29 Superfortress Bockscar, and was the one who, on August 9, 1945, visually targeted Nagasaki, Japan, in order to drop an atomic bomb onto it. It was his twenty-seventh birthday on the same day. He flew on the Hiroshima mission in The Great Artiste which was named after him, purportedly because he could hit a pickle barrel with a bomb from 30,000 feet, or he was "good with the fairer sex".

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• " I suppose it was when the clouds opened up over the target at Nagasaki. The target was there, pretty as a picture. I made the run, let the bomb go. That was my greatest thrill." His reply when asked "What was your most outstanding experience on this historic flight?"