Ben Benjamin

Special Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Trinity Site

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer DetachmentTrinity Test Eyewitness

Ben Benjamin was a sergeant in the Special Engineer Detachment during the Manhattan Project. He had previously worked in industry making lenses and prisms, and was assigned to the Optics Group to help with photographing the Trinity Test.

For Benjamin’s reminscences, see: Trinity Test ‘brighter than 20 suns and the most spectacular sunrise ever seen,’ says Ben Benjamin.

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