Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Asa Swain

ShopChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Asa Swain worked in the shop at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

I. Devenish

Y-12 Plant

I. Devenish worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Barney J. O’Keefe

Tinian Island

Barney J. O’Keefe served in the military as an ensign during the war. He was a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Robert H. Griner

K-25 Plant

Attended Purdue University.

William F. Rahe

Oak Ridge, TN

William Rahe worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.