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Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, one of the Navy’s foremost experts on the Topmost Secret, and also one of the bravest of men, gave an interview to the Associated Press in which he said ...
Rear Admiral William Sterling "Deak" Parsons (26 November 1901 – 5 December 1953) was an American Naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He is best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. A 1922 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Parsons ...
Rear Admiral William Sterling "Deak" Parsons (26 November 1901 – 5 December 1953) was an American naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He is best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. To avoid the possibility of a nuclear explosion if the ...
William Sterling " Deak " Parsons was an American naval officer who was the weaponeer on the Enola Gay in the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. To avoid the possibility of a catastrophic nuclear explosion if the aircraft crashed and burned on takeoff, he climbed into the cramped and dark bomb bay and armed the bomb in flight.
William "Deke" Parsons, Rear Admiral (1901 - 1953) Rear Admiral William "Deak" Parsons was born on November 26, 1901, in Evanston, Illinois. He graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis in 1929 with an emphasis on ordnance.
William Sterling Parsons. William Sterling Parsons ( 26. listopadu 1901 Chicago, Illinois, USA – 5. prosince 1953 Bethesda, Maryland, USA ), známý pod přezdívkou Deak Parsons, byl americký námořní důstojník, kapitán námořnictva (později kontradmirál ), který za druhé světové války pracoval jako odborník na munici v rámci ...
Nov 18, 2020 · Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, USN, painting, oil on canvas board; by Charles Bittinger; 1946; unframed dimensions 16H X 12W. Rear Admiral Parsons, born in Chicago, Illinois, 26 November 1901, attended Fort Sumner, New Mexico, High School, before his appointment to the US Naval Academy from New Mexico in 1918.
