National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
George W. Marquardt served as a captain in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. Although he was regularly assigned to the Up An’ Atom, he flew in the mission to bomb Hiroshima as the aircraft commander of the Necessary Evil.
Minnesota native Roger Hultgren worked for the DuPont Company as a chemist during the early 1940s, initally assigned to the Jolliet, Illinois munitions plans.