Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Marion C. Fowler, Jr.

Ground Crew on Next ObjectiveTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
The Next Objective

Marion C. Fowler, Jr. served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Next Objective.

Crew A-3, Fowler is sitting in the bottom row, third to the left. Photo courtesy of Richard H. Campbell and the Janet Chapman Pence Collection from the Air Force Museum.

Related Profiles

C. C. Cronn

Hanford, WA

J. E. deColongne

Research & Development/300 Area

deColongne worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

Joseph E. Finneran

Los Alamos, NM

Winston Grice

Chicago, IL

Winston Grice was a millwright at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.