National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Gus Essig began working on the Manhattan Project in May, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio. Essig was selected to work in the highly classified initiator program and spent several months at Los Alamos learning how to design and construct initiators.
Augustus “Gus” Kinzel was an American metallurgical engineer. He graduated at age eighteen from Columbia College, and earned a PhD in metallurgical engineering from the University of Nancy in France.
Ray Belcher served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation.
