National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
James R. Corliss served as a technical sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was regularly assigned to work as a flight engineer on the Up An’ Atom but did not fly in that plane during the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Gunnar Thornton was a nuclear physicist and engineer that served in the Special Engineer Detachment (SED) at Los Alamos and on Project Alberta in Tinian.
Obituary: George J. Beichl, 96, chemistry professor, former POW
