World War II United States Army Air Corps Soldier. He served as a weapon's test officer and specialist on board the B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" which dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. He served in the United States military from 1943 to 1946, attending Air Force training schools at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), before being assigned to the atomic bomb development and testing facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He flew his first and only combat mission on the morning of August 6, 1945, and was responsible for arming the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" in flight. Following the war, he attended graduate school at the University of California in Berkeley. After completing graduate school, he worked for several high-tech companies and as a consultant to the United States Department of Energy. At the time of his death, he was the next-to-last surviving member of the "Enola Gay" flight crew.
World War II United States Army Air Corps Soldier. He served as a weapon's test officer and specialist on board the B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" which dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. He served in the United States military from 1943 to 1946, attending Air Force training schools at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), before being assigned to the atomic bomb development and testing facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He flew his first and only combat mission on the morning of August 6, 1945, and was responsible for arming the atomic bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" in flight. Following the war, he attended graduate school at the University of California in Berkeley. After completing graduate school, he worked for several high-tech companies and as a consultant to the United States Department of Energy. At the time of his death, he was the next-to-last surviving member of the "Enola Gay" flight crew.
Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.
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