Kermit Beahan, American Air Force colonel (died 1989)

Kermit Beahan

US Air Force officer

Kermit King Beahan 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, that dropped the second atomic bomb on…