National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Donald Ames joined the Manhattan Project as a G.I. at the University of Chicago in 1943. Ames worked under Nobel Prize chemist Glenn Seaborg at the Metallurgical Laboratory, where he helped determine the chemical properties of plutonium and developed a rapid method for measuring the radium concentration in solutions.
Kenneth L. Baxter served as a private first class in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew on the B-29 Jabit III.
Raymond L. Brin was a Technical Sargeant in the Army’s Special Engineer Detachment. He worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, and traveled to Tinian Island as a member of Project Alberta.
Karl Johnson worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
