Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

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. He flew in the Necessary Evil in the Hiroshima mission and the Enola Gay in the Nagasaki mission.

Related Profiles

Clarence S. Kulakowski

Los Alamos, NM

W. A. Van Fleet

Oak Ridge, TN

W. A. Van Fleet worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

F. B. Von Unwerth

Hanford, WA

Phyllis Smith

Oak Ridge, TN

Phyllis Smith worked for the H. K. Ferguson Company.