National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
John L. Downey served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the bombardier regularly assigned to the Laggin’ Dragon.
William Penney (1909-1991) was a British mathematician and physicist. William Penney’s first assignment of the war was a research position with the Royal Navy, studying collisions, explosions and shockwaves and searching for ways to use hydrodynamics to assist the navy.
Laura Fermi (1907-1977) was an author and historian, as well as the wife of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi.
P. R. Payne worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.
