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Johnston, Lawrence Postwar Life and Career

Lawrence Johnston was at Stanford University helping to build a two mile long linear accelerator.

Johnston, Lawrence Religious Services and Witnessing All Three Wartime Atomic Bomb Detonations

While Lawrence Johnston was working as a scientists at Los Alamos, religious services were held every Sunday.

Johnston, Lawrence Scientific Lectures and the First Atomic Bomb Detonation

To Lawrence Johnston, one of the great things at Los Alamos was that every Monday night a lecture was held with a different scientists speaking eve

Johnston, Lawrence Time on Tinian then Back to the United States

Lawrence Johnston never had a chance to talk to any of the German scientists who had come to the United States, although he would have liked to.

Johnston, Lawrence Working at Los Alamos

Lawrence Johnston had been working on the radar project at MIT [Annotator's Note: Massachusetts Institute of Technology] for three or four yea

Johnston, Roy Early Life, Enlistment and Assignment

Roy Johnston was born in Emma, Louisiana and grew up in various settlements in the northwest of the state.

Johnston, Roy Life Aboard the USS Bowditch (AG-30)

Roy Johnston recalled that the USS Bowditch (AG-30) had been a luxury liner with wood decks and for about two months Johnston stood fire watch whil

Johnston, Roy Life After the War and Reflections

When Roy Johnston returned to his wife's home place, he took a job at the International Paper Company where his spouse was already working.

Johnston, Roy Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb

The worst fighting Roy Johnston experienced was at Okinawa. That's where he had his introduction to the Kamikaze attacks.

Jones, Clyde Atomic bomb and return home

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was going on because the airstrip

Jones, Clyde Combat missions

Arriving on the island of Tinian, Jones and his crew are immediately told to fuel and arm their plane in preparation for attacking three Japanese a