National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended Columbia University.
Melvin H. Bierman served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. Bierman was regularly assigned as a tail gunner in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane in the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ernest Mekanas was a member of the Provisional Engineering Detachment at Los Alamos. Mekanas was in Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945, working primarily at the post office.
Elinor Pulitzer Hempelmann (1922-2012) was a secretary at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project and wife of Health Group Director Louis Hempelmann.