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Charles Michael Sweeny (January 26, 1882 – February 27, 1963) was an American soldier of fortune, United States Army lieutenant colonel, French Foreign Legion officer, [1] Polish army brigadier general, [2] [3] Royal Air Force (RAF) group captain, and journalist who fought in numerous conflicts in the 20th century.
Charles William Sweeney (27 December 1919 – 16 July 2004) was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.
Walter C. Sweeney married Anne Eloise McConnell of Tennessee on April 10, 1904. [17] They remained married until her death on December 15, 1953, in San Francisco, California. The couple had three children: Elizabeth Josephine Sweeney Gayle, [18] Walter Campbell Sweeney Jr., a U.S. Air Force general who served as commander of the Tactical Air ...
Translation: "The American volunteer pilots left yesterday for Morocco / Before departure: General Dumesnil gives the American colonel Sweeny a bon voyage toast." The Escadrille Chérifienne (Cherifian Squadron) or Escadrille Américaine (American Squadron) was an American mercenary squadron fighting for the French colonial empire during the ...
For six years, from August 1955 until September 1961, Sweeney commanded the Eighth Air Force at Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts. In October 1961 Sweeney was promoted to four-star rank and assumed command of Tactical Air Command with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. He retired from the USAF on August 1, 1965, and died of ...
Appointed to serve out remaining two years of late GOP Sen. John McCain's term by Gov. Doug Ducey (2019–2020); first U.S. Air Force Academy graduate to be appointed to U.S Senate; pilot; retired as a Colonel (United States) in May 2010 after serving 22 years as a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot
USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California. The commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is known as its Commandant.The commandant leads the school which combines Air Force Materiel Command's (AFMC) most complex flying unit encompassing nearly 4,000 flight hours in over 30 aircraft types annually, and Air University's (AU) most demanding Master of Science ...
General Sweeney may refer to: Charles Sweeney (1919–2004), U.S. Army Air Forces major general Joseph Sweeney (Irish politician) (1897–1980), Irish National Army general