National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Lulu Slaughter was a laboratory assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
Herbert Depke was born November 18, 1907 in Danville, Illinois. He received a B.S. from the University of Illinois in 1930, then began working for his family’s business.
Melvin H. Bierman served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. Bierman was regularly assigned as a tail gunner in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane in the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
