Marie Cardwell

Plant Document LibrarianY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Marie Cardwell arrived in Oak Ridge in February, 1945. She was hired as the Document Librarian for the Y-12 Plant and held for the remainder of the Manhattan Project, and for several decades afterwards.

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