National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard Tolman (1881-1948) was an American physicist and chemist. Starting in 1940, Tolman served as Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) and was also the Chairman of the Armor and Ordnance Division of the NDRC.
Joseph L. Ross served in the radar section of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
Joseph M. DiJulio served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was regularly assigned as a radar operator on the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane during the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Francis R. Shonka (1906-1970) was an American physicist and inventor. Shonka taught physics for a number of years in China and at St.
