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Jesse Kupferberg

Observer on The Great ArtisteNagasaki Mission

Los Alamos, NMTinian Island
EngineerManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProject Alberta
Jesse Kupferberg in The Great Artiste on Tinian.

Jesse Kupferberg was a Technical Sargeant in the US Army who participated in Project Alberta, the group tasked with transporting and assembling the two atomic bombs in 1945. He flew in the Great Artiste to observe the Nagasaki mission.

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