What happened to the pilot who bombed Hiroshima or Nagasaki?

They lived out their lives, peacefully, and died of old age. Tibbets, the pilot of the plane that bombed Hiroshima, became good friends with the man who led Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. They were both soldiers doing their jobs, nothing personal. read more

Pilot of plane that dropped nuclear bomb on Nagasaki dies Charles Donald Albury, co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, has died after years of congestive heart failure, aged 88. read more

At 11:01 a.m., the bomb was dropped on the industrial city of Nagasaki, killing and wounding tens of thousands, heavily damaging a steelworks and arms plant and demolishing thousands of residential buildings, according to an American bombing survey. read more