National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended the University of North Carolina.
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.
William Augustus Bowland was born on July 22, 1913, at Pocomoke City, Maryland. He attended Strayer's Business College in Baltimore, Maryland, for three years.