National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
John William Starner joined the Manhattan Project in December 1943 as a member of the Special Engineer Detachement at Los Alamos.
Melvin H. Bierman served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. Bierman was regularly assigned as a tail gunner in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane in the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
