J. I. Smith

CorporalTinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

J. I. Smith served in the 390th Air Service Group.

Related Profiles

Thomas F. Costa

Tinian Island

Thomas F. Costa served as a 1st lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the bombardier regularly assigned to the B-29 Some Punkins.

Moddie Taylor

Chicago, IL

Moddie Daniel Taylor (1912-1976) was a chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project from 1943-1945. Early Years Taylor was born in Nymph, Alabama on March 3, 1912.

Sanford N. McDonnell

Los Alamos, NM

Sanford McDonnell was a mechanical engineer with the Special Engineering Detachment at Los Alamos from April 1944 to April 1946.

Hugo Leckelt

Chicago, IL

Hugo Leckelt was a laborer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.