Here are some pictures that we didn’t have room for in the book. At the top are links to pictures elsewhere. Below that, if you scroll down, are a bunch of other pictures. Happy browsing!
The Joliot-Curies
Here’s a series of pictures of Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, including them at the 1935 Nobel ceremony, where they shared the stage with James Chadwick (who beat them to the discovery of the neutron) and Hans Spemann (who threw out a Sieg Heil “Nazi salute” after his speech). There are also picture of Marie and Irène at a mobile X-ray station during World War I.
Here’s a modern view of the Curie family cottage in L’Arcouest/Port Science.
Here’s a family portrait of Irène with her son Pierre and her daughter Hélène, who she insisted take her baccalaureate exam in science, even if meant staying behind longer in Nazi-occupied France.
Moe Berg
Moe Berg on his world tour in 1932, after his first trip to Japan (scroll down).
Moe Berg and others goofing around at spring training in 1933. Beg was showing off what he’d learned in Japan.
Moe Berg looking mysterious on his cruise to Japan in 1934.
The 1934 Major League Baseball all-star team that toured Japan in 1934. Babe Ruth is front and center. Moe Berg is in the front row, second from the left.
Here’s a good mix of Berg pictures from throughout his life.
Moe Berg with soldiers, during his OSS days (scroll down).
Some pictures of Moe Berg’s Swiss friend, Paul Scherrer, alias “Flute”: here, here, and here.
Moe Berg speaking at a microphone for NBC radio circa 1950.
Joe Kennedy
Joe Kennedy with his father and brother in Massachusetts in 1937.
Joe Kennedy with his father and brother in London in 1938.
Joe Kennedy standing near a plane during navy pilot school. There’s another shot here.
Joe Kennedy and his brother Jack in their navy uniforms.
Several shots of captured V-1s: here, here, and here.
Three images of V-1 rockets:
Two images of V-2 rockets:
An image of the rocket launching pad at Peenemünde (left). And two images of what the “moon lady” might have looked like on Wernher von Braun’s first successful V-2 rocket:
OSS
OSS head William “Wild Bill” Donovon (left) was simultaneously the most inspiring and most incompetent bureau chief of World War Two. His top warrior Col. Carl Eifler (middle and right) was once called “without a doubt the toughest, deadliest hombre in the whole OSS menagerie”:
German scientists
A picture of Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, and Carl von Weizsäcker vacationing in Austria in 1932.
Farm Hall, the cushy prisoner camp where the British secretly recorded conversations between German nuclear scientists, eight of whom are pictured here:
Goudsmit
In the left picture, George Uhlenbeck (left) and Samuel Goudsmit (right) discovered electron spin together as graduate students in Holland. In the right picture, Samuel Goudsmit (back row, left) and Enrico Fermi (front row, right) were both students together in Leiden in the Netherlands under Paul Ehrenfest (center):
Samuel Goudsmit with other Alsos scientists:
Pash
Various pictures of Coach Boris Pash in the Hollywood High yearbooks:
A sketch of Boris Pash and the Alsos logo, two pictures of Boris Pash in action during missions, Boris Pash in uniform circa 1955, and another view of Pash dancing “in the Russian manner” at the party to end the war:
Heavy water raids
Another view of the Vemork heavy-water plant in Norway, and the Hydro ferry that was commissioned to help carry heavy water to Germany, and was sunk in a deep glacier lake:
An interior shot (left) of the type of glider used on the disastrous Operation Freshman mission. Notice the corrugated floors, designed to channel vomit. A mockup (right) of the final moments before the Gunnerside commando team blew up the heavy-water cells in Vemork:
Stagg field
Two artistic renderings of the Stagg field squash court at the University of Chicago that housed the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history:
Alsos missions
Alsos crew members play baseball on the grounds of their headquarters in Heidelberg. Alsos crew members (including Boris Pash, right) playing ping-pong on the grounds of their headquarters in Heidelberg. An Alsos jeep with the logo affixed as a bumper sticker. The Alsos logo in color:
The full brochure singing the praises of Doramad radioactive toothpaste:
Upon entering Paris (left), the Lightning-A crew found crowds so dense they could barely squeeze by sometimes. In contrast, much of Berlin (middle) lay in ruins by the time Alsos arrived there. The black market thrived in Berlin after the war (right). Every time GIs stopped their jeeps, they were swarmed:
Another view of the “atom cellar” in Haigerloch (left). Notice the church atop the cliff above. A picture of uranium cubes recovered from Germany:
Overview of the oil-shale factory (left) that Groves and others worried was the “German Oak Ridge”. Buildings at the “German Oak Ridge” would get covered in camouflage each night (right):
