National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Vernon J. Rowley served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radar operator on the B-29 Jabit III on the Hiroshima mission.
Ernest Wende was transferred into the Manhattan District, the branch of the United States Army Corps of Engineers tasked with overseeing the construction of critical Manhattan Project sites, shortly after its formation in 1942.
Robert S. Coles was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory during the Manhattan Project.
