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Wesley R. Prohs

Tinian Island

Wesley R. Prohs served in the United States Naval Reserve. He also worked as a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Donald P. Dome

K-25 Plant

Attended Lehigh University.

Josef Novak

Chicago, IL

Josef Novak worked in the shop at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Lawrence S. Myers, Jr.

Chicago, IL

Lawrence Myers was a chemist who worked at the Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. He met his future wife, Janet, in elementary school.