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Merrill Garrett

Y-12 Plant

Merrill Garrett worked at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project. A high school football star, Garrett received an appointment to the United States Military Academy, but was forced to decline due to financial circumstances during the Great Depression.

Clarence A. Faidley

Tinian Island

Clarence A. Faidley served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.

Gilmore L. Agnor

Oak Ridge, TN

Agnor worked for the United States Engineer District Office.

Anthony D. Capua, Jr.

Hiroshima Mission

Anthony D. Capua, Jr. served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was regularly assigned as an assistant engineer/scanner in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane in the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.