A. L. DeSpain

Herman H. Fussler

Herman H. Fussler was the Assistant Director of the Information Division and Librarian of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Richard F. Cannon

Richard F. Cannon served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was assigned as the radar operator in the Necessary Evil, but flew in the Big Stink in the 1945 bombing mission on Nagasaki.

Jackson Davidson

John P. McBride

John P. McBride was a research assistant in the Chemistry Division at the Chicago Met Lab. He was later assigned to Oak Ridge, where he worked on plutonium purification and on isolating uranium-233 isotopes from thorium.