Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

J. R. Bishop

Special Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment

Related Profiles

Richard B. Anselme

Hiroshima Mission

Richard B. Anselme served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.  He was the assistant engineer/scanner of the B-29 Full House, which served as a weather reconnaissance plane on the Hiroshima bombing mission, and the backup strike plane on Iwo Jima on the Nagasaki mission.

Velva Irwin

Y-12 Plant

Velva Irwin worked as a Calutron girl at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN. She was only 16 when she began working on the Manhattan Project.

Don Ross

Oak Ridge, TN

Don Ross worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.

J. R. Martin

Hanford, WA