Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Edgar Chaney

SergeantTinian Island

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

Edgar Chaney served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.

Related Profiles

William Penney

Los Alamos, NM

William Penney (1909-1991) was a British mathematician and physicist. William Penney’s first assignment of the war was a research position with the Royal Navy, studying collisions, explosions and shockwaves and searching for ways to use hydrodynamics to assist the navy.

Thomas P. Hill, III

Tinian Island

Thomas P. Hill, III served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. 

G. W. Candler

Oak Ridge, TN

G. W. Candler worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

R. L. Paschall

Tinian Island

R. L. Paschall served in the 509th Headquarters and Base Services Squadron.