Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Lavern L. Holmes

Ground Crew on Luke the SpookTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

Lavern L. Holmes served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned first to Luke the Spook and later to Big Stink.

Related Profiles

E. C. Bell

Oak Ridge, TN

John Caughey

Los Alamos, NM

Walter E. Dial

Tinian Island

Walter E. Dial served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron. 

Luin W. Hough

Chicago, IL

Luin W. Hough was a photographer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.