John E. Jackson

Engine MechanicTinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

John Jackson was a member of the 393rd Bomber Squadron in the 509th Composite Group stationed in Wendover, Utah, and later on Tinian Island in the Pacific. Jackson was an engine mechanic for the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945.

The crew of the Enola Gay, Jackson is pictured on the bottom row, third from the left

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