National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Jose R. Valdez was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Morris S. Kaplan was a Chemical Engineer for the Houdaille-Hershey Company in Decatur, Illinois. Kaplan was born in Massachusetts in 1921 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.
John L. Downey served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the bombardier regularly assigned to the Laggin’ Dragon.
Matthew Sands (1919-2014) was an American physicist. In 1943, Matthew Sands began working for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and developed two types of influence mines before being disillusioned by the bureaucracy of the navy.
