Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Bernard F. Benson

Staff SergeantTinian Island

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

Bernard F. Benson served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.

Related Profiles

Calvin S. Shepherd

Los Alamos, NM

Calvin S. Shepherd worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, NM and the Trinity Site.

Philip C. Leahy

Grand Junction, CO

Philip C. Leahy was a Major in the United States Army. During World War II, he was placed in charge of establishing a domestic uranium procurement program for the Manhattan Project.

Otis L. Abbott

Hanford, WA

John Lansdale

Washington, DC

John Lansdale (1912 – 2003) was a colonel in the US Army. Lansdale first learned of the Manhattan project from National Defense Research Committee Chairman James B.