Hank McCutcheon (d. May, 1951) was a B-29 pilot during the Korean War before and after it became part of World War III. McCutcheon flew out of a U.S. Air Force base near Pusan, South Korea, His co-pilot was Bill Staley. McCutcheon's bomber was part of the U.S. atomic attack in Manchuria that escalated the conflict to the global scale. His plane dropped an atomic bomb on Harbin on the night of January 23, 1951.