Frederick J. Olivi

Co-Pilot on BockscarNagasaki Mission

Tinian IslandWendover, UT

509th Composite GroupHiroshima MissionManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission

Listen to Frederick J. Olivi’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Frederick J. Olivi served as a member of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the 509th Composite Group. He was regularly assigned to the Great Artiste but was pre-empted from the Hiroshima Mission due to the number of scientific personnel required. Days later, he participated in the Nagasaki Mission as the co-pilot of Bockscar.

Lt. Fred Olivi

James Van Pelt, Charles Sweeney, and Fred Olivi

Fred Olivi in Bockscar. Courtesy of the Joseph Papalia Collection.

Fred Olivi in Great Artiste. Courtesy of the Joseph Papalia Collection.

Fred Olivi on Tinian. Courtesy of the Joseph Papalia Collection.

Related Profiles

C.K. Smith

Hanford, WA

Myfanwy Pritchard-Roberts

Britain

Myfanwy Pritchard Roberts worked in Rhydymwyn, Wales as a laboratory assistant in the Tube Alloys program, the British mission to create the nuclear bomb.

Edgar Sengier

Manhattan, NY

Edgar Sengier (1879 – 1963) was the director of Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. After being warned by British scientists regarding the potential danger were the uranium ore to fall into the wrong hands, Sengier decided to transport half the uranium stockpile from the Congo to the United States in 1940.

Charles C. Larcom

Hanford, WA