National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Diana (Florence Ruth) Russell was a Manhattan Project veteran from the Hanford, Washington facility. Shortly after the end of the war, she started work reading the radiation exposure badges that all employees in the radioactive areas were required to wear.
Sarah Bailey was very young when she went to work at the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge. She was employed by Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corporation, a contractor in the gaseous diffusion operation, in 1945.
Jacob Beser served as a 1st lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron’s Radar Section. He was the radar specialist aboard the Enola Gay bombing mission to Hiroshima and on Bockscar during the Nagasaki mission.
