Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Melba Johnston

Project StaffX-10 Graphite Reactor

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge

Melba Johnston worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

Related Profiles

Sam Anderson

Oak Ridge, TN

Sam Anderson worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

James K. Elder, Jr.

Tinian Island

James K. Elder, Jr. served as a technical sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the flight engineer regularly assigned first to Luke the Spook and later to Big Stink.

Edward K. Buckley

Nagasaki Mission

Edward K. Buckley served as a staff sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radar operator aboard the Great Artiste during the Hiroshima mission.

Carl V. Schavone

Los Alamos, NM

Carl Schavone was a member of the Military Police at Los Alamos as part of Post Security. After the war, he married Marguerite Schofield and lived in Marlboro, Massachusetts for nearly fifty years.