National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
LaVeryne Fesset was a stenographer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Ethel Schwartz arrived as a bride with her husband, Manuel Schwartz, at Los Alamos in 1944. She worked in the office until she became pregnant with her son, Joel Schwartz, who was born there after the bombs were dropped on August 6, 1945.
John E. Bonds served in the 390th Air Service Group. After the war, Bonds was assigned to the Japan Atomic Bomb Damage Survey teams.
