Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Ralph N. Devore

Commander on the Next ObjectiveTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

Ralph N. Devore served as a captain in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the airplane commander regularly assigned to the B-29 Next Objective.

Crew A-3, Devore is in the top row, third from left. Photo courtesy of Richard H. Campbell and the Janet Chapman Pence Collection from the Air Force Museum.

Related Profiles

William P. Thomas

Los Alamos, NM

William Thomas was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Fred H. Greene

K-25 Plant

Fred H. Greene was an engineer who worked on the K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge, TN, for Union Carbide and Carbon.

William Gusinow

Los Alamos, NM

James E. Teel

Tinian Island

James E. Teel served in the First Ordnance Squadron.