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Theodore M. Slife

Hiroshima Mission

Theodore M. Slife served as a staff sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radio operator of the B-29 Full House, which served as a weather reconnaissance plane on the Hiroshima bombing mission, and the backup strike plane on Iwo Jima on the Nagasaki mission.

Edward P. Shvegel

Tinian Island

Edward P. Shvegel served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.

William E. Brown

Tinian Island

William E. Brown served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. 

Julia E. Freeman

Chicago, IL

Julia Elaine Freeman graduated high school early at age 16. She was also the only African American woman in her high school graduating class of 1940.