Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Forrest Waldrop

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Alpha Racetrack at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

Waldrop arrived at Oak Ridge in early 1944, directly after receiving his Army basic training. At Oak Ridge, he worked at the Y-12 plant during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Leonard A. Godfrey Jr.

Nagasaki Mission

Leonard A. Godfrey Jr. served as a member of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the 509th Composite Group.

V. A. Thurston

Oak Ridge, TN

V. A. Thurston worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Charles A. Thomas

Dayton, OH

Charles Allen Thomas (1900-1982) was an American chemist and industrial leader. Thomas was recruited to join the Manhattan Project in 1942 by General Groves, who offered him a postion as a deputy to Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

John B. Marchbanks

Los Alamos, NM