National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Peer de Silva (1917-1978) was an American Army officer and a station chief for the CIA. De Silva was born in San Francisco.
William E. Wright served as a captain in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the regularly assigned navigator for the Big Stink, and he and his crew were later reassigned to Luke the Spook.
Leon O. Jacobson was Associate Director of the Health Division and Section Chief of H-I, Clinical Medicine and Medical Research, at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Monsignor William Sweeney studied for the priesthood in Worcester, Massachusetts, and came to Washington state in 1938.
