National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Ira C. Weatherly served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the pilot on the Straight Flush during the Hiroshima mission.
Herbert York (1921-2009) was a part-Mohawk American physicist. After graduating with a master’s in physics from the University of Rochester in 1942, York went directly to work at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory connected with the Manhattan Project.
John Perry Howe, Jr. was Associate Director at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
