National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Vincent J. Galvani was a chemical engineer who helped design the trigger mechanism for the atom bomb.
Joe W. Howland was a medical officer in charge of special problems in the US Army, stationed in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Rochester, New York during the Manhattan Project.
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.
