National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended Brooklyn College.
Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
Vernon J. Rowley served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radar operator on the B-29 Jabit III on the Hiroshima mission.
In 1943, seventeen-year-old Norris Jernigan joined the Army Air Corps Cadet program, where he began training to become a pilot.