A. W. Betts

ColonelLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProvisional Engineer Detachment

Colonel Austin Wortham “Cy” Betts worked under General Kenneth D. Nichols during the Manhattan Project. He was J. Robert Oppenheimer’s deputy at Los Alamos.

Cy Betts was an observer of Operation Crossroads in 1946.

Related Profiles

Ralph R. Taylor, Jr.

Hiroshima Mission

Ralph R. Taylor, Jr. served as a major in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the commander 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.

H. F. Koch

Y-12 Plant

H. F. Koch worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Richard S. Hill

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended Harvard University.

L. Z. Dolan

Y-12 Plant

L. Z. Dolan worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.