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.
Clarence Francis Hiskey (1912-1998) was an American chemist and Soviet spy. He worked at Columbia University and the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory during the Manhattan Project.
Irwin P. Sharpe was born in 1921 and died just short of his 100th birthday in 2021. He was recruited for the Manhattan Project by his employer, General Electric, after he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in engineering in 1942.
