Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

E. R. Smallwood

Private First ClassTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

E. R. Smallwood served in the 509th Headquarters.

Related Profiles

Billy Rives

Los Alamos, NM

P. H. Benoy

Hanford, WA

Robert E. Hayes

Marshall Islands

Robert “Bob” Hayes worked as an airplane mechanic on Kwajalein Island, maintaining Boeing B-29s. He talks about life in the Pacific during World War II, being trained to use a flamethrower on Iwo Jima, maintaining complicated airplane engines, and witnessing the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests.

Myron B. Kratzer

Los Alamos, NM