Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Wilbur L. Waggoner

First LieutenantTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

Wilbur L. Waggoner served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.

Related Profiles

Rex Edward Keller

Los Alamos, NM

Rex Edward Keller was a member of the Special Engineering Detachment, assigned to work in Seth Neddermeyer’s chemistry group at Los Alamos.

Warren C. Johnson

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Warren Johnson worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

Donald Ames

Chicago, IL

Donald Ames joined the Manhattan Project as a G.I. at the University of Chicago in 1943. Ames worked under Nobel Prize chemist Glenn Seaborg at the Metallurgical Laboratory, where he helped determine the chemical properties of plutonium and developed a rapid method for measuring the radium concentration in solutions.

Carl A. Rudder

Los Alamos, NM