National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard’s last name has been misspelled multiple times. Alternative spellings include “Kermadjian” (incorrectly recorded in a Roll Call for the 4617th MP Detachment) and “Karanedjian” (in the first volume of the Los Alamos Times, published March 15th, 1946).
William Crum was born on September 4, 1925, in Hancock County, IL. He was the seventh of eight siblings who grew up on a farm in Western Illinois near the Mississippi River.