National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Ernest W. Korthals served in the 1027th Air Material Squadron.
Crews worked at the 100-F Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Edward F. “Ed” Hammel was an American chemist. Hammel had just completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University when he joined a Canadian heavy water project sponsored by the school in 1941.
Wesley R. Prohs served in the United States Naval Reserve. He also worked as a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
