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Frederick Lincoln " Dick " Ashworth (24 January 1912 – 3 December 2005) was a United States Navy officer who served as the weaponeer on the B-29 Bockscar that dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945 during World War II . A 1933 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, Ashworth commanded ...
Frederick Ashworth (1912 – 2005) was a Vice Admiral in the US Navy. Ashworth’s work on the Manhattan Project began in 1944. Having already served in the Pacific theater, he was rotated back to the United States where he supervised the testing of bomb parts produced at Los Alamos.
Dec 3, 2005 · Frederick Lincoln "Dick" Ashworth was a United States Navy officer who served as the weaponeer on the B-29 Bockscar that dropped a Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on 9 August 1945 during World War II.
Aug 4, 2015 · I learned harrowing new details of this historic flight from the weaponeer, Vice Admiral Frederick Lincoln “Dick” Ashworth, a few months before he died in 2005, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ashworth had been a Navy commander who helped to select Tinian as the base for the atomic mission.
Retired Navy Vice Adm. Frederick L. “Dick” Ashworth, who served as the weaponeer on the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, hastening the end of World War II, has died.
The aircraft was piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney, with Capt. Kermit Beahan serving as bombardier and Manhattan Project veteran Comdr. Frederick Ashworth in the role of weaponeer. Their payload was Fat Man, the plutonium-fueled implosion device similar to the bomb detonated at the Trinity test.
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Dec 8, 2005 · Vice Adm. Frederick L. Ashworth, a Navy weapons specialist who was the crewman in control of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II's climactic strike, died Saturday at a ...
