National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Reginald C. Augustine served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1944, he was assigned to the Alsos Mission, the Manhattan Project’s counterintelligence mission in Europe to determine how far Nazi Germany had gotten on the path to building an atomic bomb.
Jack Bivans was the Assistant Flight Engineer on the “Straight Flush” B-29 crew that participated in the first Atomic bombing over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
