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Gerald Cole

Truck DriverTinian Island

Wendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Gerald Cole served with the 1st Ordinance Squadron in the 509th Composite Group at airfields in both Wendover, Utah and Tinian Island in the Pacific. At the latter location, he helped unload the USS Indianapolis when it reached the island, carrying the enriched uranium that was eventually used in "Little Boy," the codename given to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Additionally, Cole was assigned to drive the truck taking Little Boy on a trailer to be loaded onto the Enola Gay B-29 aircraft.

Information submitted by Steve Cole.  

Gerald Cole's project area pass on Tinian Island, dated late-July 1945. 

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