National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Jas Purcell worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.
John K. Cloepfil served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.
Ernest Anderson (1920-2013) was an American physical chemist. Anderson was born on August 23, 1920 in Rock Island, Illinois.
John worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, as Enrico Fermi‘s bodyguard. He moved with his wife and daughter to Los Alamos in 1943.
Merrill Garrett worked at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project. A high school football star, Garrett received an appointment to the United States Military Academy, but was forced to decline due to financial circumstances during the Great Depression.
