Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Clyde R. Beecher

Ground Crew for the Strange CargoTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
Strange Cargo

Clyde R. Beecher served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Strange Cargo.

Related Profiles

Elizabeth Price

Oak Ridge, TN

Elizabeth Price worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

A. Schwiebert

Oak Ridge, TN

A. Schwiebert worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Charles Robert Emigh

Los Alamos, NM

Bob Emigh was in the Navy and worked with Deak Parsons on telemetry for the bombs. He was assigned as the science officer for the planned third bomb.

Joe Watkins

Research & Development/300 Area

Watkins worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.