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- Kermit King Beahan (August 9, 1918 – March 9, 1989) was a career officer in the United States Air Force and its predecessor United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He was the bombardier on the crew flying the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar on August 9, 1945 (his 27th birthday), that dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. He also participated in the first atomic mission that bombed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Flying as part of the crew of The Great Artiste which was a reference to him, purportedly because he could "hit a pickle barrel with a bomb from 30,000 feet" or he was "good with the fairer sex," his aircraft acted as the blast instrumentation support aircraft for the mission. Beahan attended Rice University on a football scholarship during the 1930s. In 1939 he joined the Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet but washed out of pilot training, becoming a bombardier instead. He was assigned to the 97th Bombardment Group and took part in the first B-17 raids in Europe by Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses. He flew 13 missions over Europe, 17 missions over North Africa, and five credited combat missions in the Pacific with the 509th Composite Group (including the Nagasaki sortie). He was shot down and crash-landed four times (twice in Europe and North Africa).
* September 7th, 1942 - Airplane was damaged beyond repair by fighters and flak, barely managing to return to its home base with wounded and killed personnel aboard.
* October 2, 1942 - Airplane was severely damaged by flak and fighters, barely returning to friendly territory with severely wounded personnel aboard.
* Dec 18th, 1942 - Airplane was damaged by flak and continuous attack by fighters causing a crash landing near the front lines.
* Jan 29, 1942 - Airplane was damaged by flak and continuous attack by fighters wounding the pilot and co-pilot causing a crash landing in very rough terrain near the front lines. He returned to the United States as a bombing instructor in Barksdale, Louisiana. In the summer of 1944, he was recruited by his former commander in England, Colonel Paul W. Tibbets to be part of the 509th Composite Group, which was formed to deliver the atomic bomb. The mission to bomb Nagasaki was conducted on Beahan's 27th birthday. Admiral Frederick L. Ashworth, who participated on the mission as weaponeer, credited Beahan with saving the mission from failure by finding an opening in the clouds by which to complete the required visual bombing of the city. An estimated 35,000–40,000 people were killed outright by the bombing of Nagasaki. Following the Japanese surrender, he returned to the United States as a crewman in the record-breaking 1945 Japan–Washington flight under Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles. He survived a crash of a B-25 at National Airport Aug 19, 1946. He remained in the Air Force until 1964, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. After his retirement, he worked as a technical writer for the engineering and construction firm Brown & Root through 1985. In 1985, on the 40th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing, Beahan said he would never apologize for the bombing, and that he had been thanked for his role by a group of 25 Japanese. He said the bombing was the "best way out of a hell of a mess." Beahan hoped that he would forever remain the last man to have dropped an atomic bomb on people. Beahan died of a heart attack in 1989. He was buried at the Houston National Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, the former Teresa Lavery of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lavery had a previous marriage, from 1944–46, to Civil War historian Shelby Foote after having met when Foote's artillery unit was deployed to Northern Ireland. Foote had spent six years in the US military and was tasked with making preparations for the invasion of Japan but in spite of his desires, never saw combat. "...Foote was devastated that World War II was over", and it was Beahan, the future husband of his ex-wife who ended it. (en)
- Kermit King Beahan, né le 9 août 1918 à Joplin et mort le 9 mars 1989 à (en), est un officier de carrière de l'United States Army Air Forces puis de l'United States Air Force américain, célèbre pour avoir été le bombardier de la deuxième bombe atomique sur Nagasaki le 9 août 1945 (jour de son anniversaire) à partir du Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar. (fr)
- Kermit K. Beahan (9 Agustus 1918 – 10 Maret 1989) adalah seorang perwira karier dalam Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat dan pendahulunya Pasukan Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat pada Perang Dunia II. Ia merupakan pada kru penerbangan Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar pada 9 Agustus 1945 (hari ulang tahun ke-27nya), yang menjatuhkan bom atom kedua di Nagasaki, Jepang. Ia juga ikut dalam misi atom pertama yang mengebom Hiroshima pada 6 Agustus 1945. Ia meninggal karena serangan jantung pada 1989. Ia dikubur di . (in)
- カーミット・K・ビーハン（Kermit K. Beahan , 1918年8月9日 - 1989年3月9日）は、アメリカ合衆国空軍の軍人。最終階級は大佐。 長崎県長崎市に原子爆弾を投下した爆撃機B-29ボックスカーのを務めた。 (ja)
- Raymond K. Beahan, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Kermit (Joplin, 9 agosto 1918 – , 9 marzo 1989), è stato un militare e aviatore statunitense, tristemente famoso per essere stato il puntatore e addetto allo sgancio bombe del BOCKSCAR, il Boeing B-29 Superfortress che il 9 agosto 1945 sganciò la bomba atomica denominata Fat Man su Nagasaki. (it)
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- Kermit King Beahan, né le 9 août 1918 à Joplin et mort le 9 mars 1989 à (en), est un officier de carrière de l'United States Army Air Forces puis de l'United States Air Force américain, célèbre pour avoir été le bombardier de la deuxième bombe atomique sur Nagasaki le 9 août 1945 (jour de son anniversaire) à partir du Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar. (fr)
- Kermit K. Beahan (9 Agustus 1918 – 10 Maret 1989) adalah seorang perwira karier dalam Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat dan pendahulunya Pasukan Udara Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat pada Perang Dunia II. Ia merupakan pada kru penerbangan Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar pada 9 Agustus 1945 (hari ulang tahun ke-27nya), yang menjatuhkan bom atom kedua di Nagasaki, Jepang. Ia juga ikut dalam misi atom pertama yang mengebom Hiroshima pada 6 Agustus 1945. Ia meninggal karena serangan jantung pada 1989. Ia dikubur di . (in)
- カーミット・K・ビーハン（Kermit K. Beahan , 1918年8月9日 - 1989年3月9日）は、アメリカ合衆国空軍の軍人。最終階級は大佐。 長崎県長崎市に原子爆弾を投下した爆撃機B-29ボックスカーのを務めた。 (ja)
- Raymond K. Beahan, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Kermit (Joplin, 9 agosto 1918 – , 9 marzo 1989), è stato un militare e aviatore statunitense, tristemente famoso per essere stato il puntatore e addetto allo sgancio bombe del BOCKSCAR, il Boeing B-29 Superfortress che il 9 agosto 1945 sganciò la bomba atomica denominata Fat Man su Nagasaki. (it)
- Kermit King Beahan (August 9, 1918 – March 9, 1989) was a career officer in the United States Air Force and its predecessor United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He was the bombardier on the crew flying the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar on August 9, 1945 (his 27th birthday), that dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. (en)
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