National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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.
Lyle B. Borst was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Borst was born on November 24, 1912 in Chicago.