National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Paula Bruggemann was born in 1940 in the agricultural community of White Bluffs, Washington. Their father owned a prosperous fruit farm along the Columbia River before the U.
Sergeant Frank Karcher was a security guard at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Kermit K. Beahan served as a captain in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the bombardier on The Great Artiste and flew on the Hiroshima mission.
