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Charles D. Albury

Co-Pilot on BockscarJapan

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Captain Don Albury

Charles D. “Don” Albury served as a Captain in the 1027th Air Material Squadron and as a commander on the Great Artiste, one of the planes that flew in the 1945 mission to bomb Hiroshima. He also flew in Bockscar as the co-pilot in the mission to Nagasaki. 

Lt. Albury and Capt. Irwin

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