branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance unit awards battles birth_date rank article_title name
united states army air forces pikesville , maryland 16 june 1992 baltimore , maryland united states 509th composite group silver star distinguished flying cross air medal world war ii 15 may 1921 lieutenant jacob beser
 jacob beser
jacob beser

jacob beser -lrb- may 15 , 1921 -- june 16 , 1992 -rrb- was a lieutenant in the united states army air forces who served during world war ii .
beser was the radar specialist aboard the enola gay on august 6 , 1945 , when it dropped the little boy atomic bomb on hiroshima .
three days later , beser was a crewmember aboard bockscar when `` fat man '' was dropped on nagasaki .
he was the only person to have served as a strike crew member of both of the 1945 atomic bomb missions .
