Melvin H. Bierman

Tail Gunner in Necessary EvilHiroshima Mission

Nagasaki MissionTinian IslandWendover, UT

509th Composite GroupHiroshima MissionManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission

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

Leonard A. Beyer

Y-12 Plant

Leonard Beyer worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Ronald D. Fredlund

Wendover, UT

RoRon Fredlund was a finance sergeant with the 509th Composite Group on Tinian Island during World War II.

D. E. Jones

Oak Ridge, TN

D. E. Jones worked for the J.A. Jones Construction Company.

R. S. Livingston

Y-12 Plant

R. S. Livingston worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.