James K. Elder, Jr.

Flight Engineer on Luke the SpookTinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

James K. Elder, Jr. served as a technical sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the flight engineer regularly assigned first to Luke the Spook and later to Big Stink.

Related Profiles

Veal T. Gentry

Y-12 Plant

Veal Gentry worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Walter J. Stelzman

K-25 Plant

Attended Pratt Institute.

Nellie West

Los Alamos, NM

Shirley Krimeier

Hanford, WA