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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 06 > Albury, 88, a co-pilot on Nagasaki A-bomb plane

Albury, 88, a co-pilot on Nagasaki A-bomb plane

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
June 6, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. — Charles Donald Albury, a co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, has died after years of congestive heart failure. He was 88.

Albury died May 23 at a hospital, Family Funeral Care in Orlando confirmed.

Albury helped fly the B-29....

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