Robert J. Valley

Tail Gunner on the Full HouseHiroshima Mission

Nagasaki MissionTinian IslandWendover, UT

509th Composite GroupHiroshima MissionManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission

Robert J. Valley served as a technical sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the tail gunner of the B-29 Full House, which served as a weather reconnaissance plane on the Hiroshima bombing mission, and the backup strike plane on Iwo Jima on the Nagasaki mission.

Related Profiles

Frances Hawkins

Los Alamos, NM

Frances Hawkins (née Pockman) was an early education expert and a teacher at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

R.E. Smoot

T-Plant/200 Areas

Smoot worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Flonnie E. Sloan

Oak Ridge, TN

Flonnie Sloan worked in Building 9201 in the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1943 to 1945.

George R. Boddy

Los Alamos, NM