National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
B. B. Bowie worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Gus Essig began working on the Manhattan Project in May, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio. Essig was selected to work in the highly classified initiator program and spent several months at Los Alamos learning how to design and construct initiators.
Willingham worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Charles W. Hagen was a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Farron Benjamin served in the last year of the war with the 1027th Air Material Squadron of the 509th Composite Group, first in Wendover, Utah, before transferring to Tinian Island.
