National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Sergeant Frank Karcher was a security guard at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Joel S. Denham, Jr. served as a staff sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
A few days after arriving from Oklahoma in late 1943, the Drums and their two girls moved into the Hanford Trailer Camp, an orderly community of more than 4,000 trailers and 12,000 residents.
