Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Albert T. Dehart

Tail Gunner on BockscarNagasaki Mission

Hiroshima MissionTinian IslandWendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
Crew posing in front of Bockscar before the atomic mission. Dehart is pictured on the far left in the front row.

Albert Dehart was a member of the 509th Composite Group as tail gunner for the B-29 Superfortress aircraft, The Great Artiste and Bockscar. He flew on the Hiroshima mission on the Great Artiste. Dehart served as tail gunner on the Bockscar mission on August 9, 1945 that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. 

Related Profiles

Clark W. Royer

Oak Ridge, TN

Clark Royer worked for the United States Engineer District Office.

E. D. Shipley

Y-12 Plant

E. D. Shipley worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

W. G. Crumlish

Hanford, WA

Stanton H. Brightman

Tinian Island

Stanton H. Brightman served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation.