MILTON, Mass. (July 17) - Charles W. Sweeney, a retired Air Force general who
piloted the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the final days of
World War II, has died at age 84.

Sweeney died Thursday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, hospital
spokeswoman Christine Johanson said. She did not disclose the cause of death.
The Associated Press left messages Saturday at phone numbers listed to the
Sweeney family in the Boston suburb of Milton.