family photos
Charles & Dorothy Sweeney, November 1943
Sweeney children (with babysitter) say goodbye at Hyannis Airport, and wish Dad good luck on his upcoming appearance in NYC on "The Price is Right.”
Sweeney children with their parents and Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston
Sweeney children line up at Otis AFB to greet Gov. Foster Furcolo
Sweeney family on Easter Sunday in Boston, MA (1957)
“To the Colonel and the Colonel’s lady, Happy New Year- Ed Sullivan” (1954)
General Sweeney and Dorothy Sweeney with children (Marylyn, Carol and Charlie)
Sweeney with Muriel Murphy and military members of his family and their spouses at 50th anniversary of the USAF (1995)
General Sweeney and son Charlie
Gen. Sweeney at "War's End" book signing with daughter Marylyn and grandson Matthew -- 1998
General & Mrs. Sweeney with 9 of their 11 children (1970)
General Sweeney was invited to throw out the first ball at Fenway Park on August 9, 2002, the anniversary of Nagasaki (with daughter Marylyn, son-in-law Brian, and grandson Matthew)
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam - Lt. Col. Elizabeth Sweeney, USAF (daughter) salutes a monument commemorating the last B-29 mission of World War II. (The plaque also recognizes the other B-29 bomb wings that operated from the Mariana Islands.) She left Andersen AFB and then flew over Tinian Island on August 9, 2007 with the 157th Air Refueling Wing. (Shown here with Dr. John Treiber, 36th Wing Historian.)
Fat Man getting ready to load into the bomb bay of Bock’s Car. Tinian Island, 1945
Brian and Marylyn (Sweeney) Howe at the National Museum of the USAF, Dayton, OH (2021)
Little Boy (fore) and Fat Man (rear) at the Bradley Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM
Grandson, Joseph P. Sweeney, Jr. speaks in front of Bock’s Car at the National Museum of the USAF (2015) at the 70th Anniversary of Nagasaki.
Brian and Marylyn (Sweeney) Howe with replicas of Little Boy & Fat Man, Los Alamos, NM — 2013