National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Robert H. Byrd served as a staff sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radio operator regularly assigned to the B-29 Some Punkins.
John Lansdale (1912 – 2003) was a colonel in the US Army. Lansdale first learned of the Manhattan project from National Defense Research Committee Chairman James B.
Louis D. Wilson was a laborer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Duren Howard Shields was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. During his time there, he worked on building the experimental casing for the bomb.
