Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Melvin Bengston

Security GuardChicago, IL

Manhattan Project Veteran
Chicago Pile-1

Melvin Bengston was a security guard at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Donald E. Matthews

Los Alamos, NM

K. G. Noyinger

Hanford, WA

Hazel L. Laity

Hanford, WA

Richard F. Cannon

Nagasaki Mission

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.