Clarence E. Britt

Assistant Engineer on the Next ObjectiveTinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Clarence E. Britt served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the assistant engineer/scanner regularly assigned to the B-29 Next Objective.

Crew A-3, Britt is in the middle row, second from the right. Photo courtesy of Richard H. Campbell and the Janet Chapman Pence Collection from the Air Force Museum.

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