Dates

• Existence: 1922 - 2010

Biographical History

Morris R. Jeppson (1922-2010) was a second Lieutenant in the Air Force during World War II, and served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

Morris R. Jeppson was born on June 23, 1922 in Logan, Utah to parents Robert Baird and Elsie Smith Jeppson. He studied physics at the University of Nevada-Reno before enlisting in the Army Air Force in 1943. He attended basic training in Florida and received electrical engineering training at Yale, Harvard, and MIT. He was requested in Wendover, Utah where he worked on bomb firing mechanisms with the Los Alamos scientists under extreme secrecy.

On August 6, 1945 he and his crew dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan endeing World War II. Jeppson left the military in 1946. He went on to work on nuclear projects at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Calirofnia and later started his own company manufacturing microwaves.

He was married twice and has six children. Jeppson passed away on March 30, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Citation:

FamilySearch, via WWW, March 17, 2015 (Morris R. Jeppson was born on June 23, 1922 in Logan, Utah to parents Robert Baird and Elsie Smith Jeppson).

Wikipedia, via WWW, March 17, 2015 (He studied physics at the University of Nevada-Reno before enlisting in the Army Air Force in 1943; attended basic training in Florida and received electrical engineering training at Yale, Harvard, and MIT; he and his crew dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan endeing World War II).

NewYorkTimes, via WWW, March 17, 2015 (He was requested in Wendover, Utah where he worked on bomb firing mechanisms with the Los Alamos scientists under extreme secrecy; left the military in 1946; went on to work on nuclear projects at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Calirofnia and later started his own company manufacturing microwaves; married twice and has six children; passed away on March 30, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada).

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