Guy Geller collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 8545

Scope and content

Photograph album containing 6 documents and over 90 photographs relating to Geller's wartime training and service, including photos of the air mission of the Enola Gay which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

Scope and content

Also, Guy Geller's dog tags, 20th Air Force patch, Honorable Discharge leather folder, 5 service ribbons (American Defense, American Theater Campaign, Asia Pacifice, and 2 WWII Victory ribbons), American Defense medal and WWII Victory medal

Dates

circa 1942-1945.

Creator

Geller, Guy, 1910?- (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Major Guy Geller of Lebanon, Pennsylvania was the commanding officer of the 1027th Air Material Squadron, the supply arm of the 509th Composite Group, the unit of the United States Army Air Force which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Extent

.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Related Archival Materials

Related material on the Atom Bomb in the Gail And Stephen Rudin Atomic Bomb Collection (collection #6990) and the Hans Bethe papers (collection #14-22-976), including declassified "Target Committee" meeting minutes in which possible targets for "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" are discussed (Box 47 Folder 27).