National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Gerald Cole served with the 1st Ordinance Squadron in the 509th Composite Group at airfields in both Wendover, Utah and Tinian Island in the Pacific.
Chester G. McBride served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
Ralph Spicer worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
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.
