National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard McNamara served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the 509th Composite Group.
Ralph Lapp was an American physicist. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1917. He was completing his PhD at the University of Chicago when he stumbled upon Enrico Fermi’s team working under Stagg’s Field in December of 1942, and was hired on the spot to work on the development of the atomic bomb.
