Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Anthony D. Capua, Jr.

Assistant Engineer on Necessary EvilHiroshima Mission

Nagasaki MissionTinian IslandWendover, UT
509th Composite GroupHiroshima MissionManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission
The Necessary Evil

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. He flew in the Necessary Evil in the Hiroshima mission and the Enola Gay in the Nagasaki mission.

Related Profiles

Edward F. Wortmann

Los Alamos, NM

Edward F. Wortmann (1916-1998) was a purchasing agent at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Wortmann joined the lab in 1944.

E.M. Rhein

Hanford, WA

Matthew A. Guszak

Tinian Island

Matthew A. Guszak served in the 1395th Miliary Police Company, Aviation.

S. D. McKnight

B Reactor/100 Area

McKnight worked in the 100 B Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.