Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Charles D. Albury

Co-Pilot on BockscarJapan

Hiroshima MissionNagasaki MissionTinian IslandWendover, UT
509th Composite GroupHiroshima MissionManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission
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

Related Profiles

G. B. Cross

Oak Ridge, TN

C. E. Jakielski

Los Alamos, NM

H. L. Gleason

Y-12 Plant

H. L. Gleason worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Lee Romero

Los Alamos, NM

Lee Romero was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.