Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Wilson D. Shields

SergeantTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

Wilson D. Shields served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.

Related Profiles

Warren L. Coble

Hiroshima Mission

Warren L. Coble served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. Coble was regularly assigned as a radio operator in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane during the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

R. H. Whitehead

Tinian Island

R. H. Whitehead served in the 509th Headquarters.

William H. Romine, Jr.

Los Alamos, NM

James W. Babcock, Jr.

Tinian Island

James W. Babcock, Jr. served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.