National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
George Francis McEwen was born on June 16, 1882 in Manchester, Iowa. He attended Iowa State College.
Robert “Bob” Hayes worked as an airplane mechanic on Kwajalein Island, maintaining Boeing B-29s. He talks about life in the Pacific during World War II, being trained to use a flamethrower on Iwo Jima, maintaining complicated airplane engines, and witnessing the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests.
O. W. Childs worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.