William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (died 1953)

William Sterling Parsons

American naval officer (1901–1953)

William Sterling "Deak" Parsons 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 an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. To…