National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Robert H. Byrd served as a staff sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radio operator regularly assigned to the B-29 Some Punkins.
Walt Simon, a chemist, was Hanford’s first Operations Manager. Before joining the Manhattan Project, he was plant manager at Wabash River Ordnance Works, a DuPont plant near Terre Haute, Indiana.
Walter Bussart worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
