Frank E. Ortiz

Private Tinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Frank E. Ortiz served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.

Related Profiles

Dana Mitchell

Los Alamos, NM

Dana Mitchell was an American physicist. He was in charge of procurement for the physics department at Columbia University during the first year of the Manhattan Project.

Joan Elizabeth Curran (1916-1999) was a Welsh physicist. Curran was born in Swansea, Wales. During World War II, she worked on Operation Windows, where she invented the “chaff,” a technique which could disrupt enemy radar.

E. C. Dunlop

B Reactor/100 Area

E. C. Dunlop worked at the 100-B Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Zen B. Portwood

Oak Ridge, TN

Zen B. Portwood worked for the J.A. Jones Construction Company.