National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William E. Smith served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Straight Flush.
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was an American theoretical physicist and the 1965 Nobel Prize winner. During the summer of 1943, Schwinger briefly worked on the development of the atomic bomb at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
Niles worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.
Frank Huke worked on the Mahattan Project in Chicago and as a part of the Ames Project, the uranium production process based in Ames, Iowa.
