Frederick Ashworth

    Frederick Ashworth

    The weaponeer on the B-29 Bockscar.

    Frederick Ashworth
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    Greetings, I am Frederick Lincoln "Dick" Ashworth. I was born on January 24, 1912. I had the privilege of serving as the weaponeer on the B-29 Bockscar during the mission to drop the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project.