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Mildred Richards

SecretaryLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Mildred Richards' Los Alamos ID badge photo

Mildred (Paddock) Richards was born in Portsmouth, ME. She graduated from American University with a BA in English.

Richards worked as a secretary at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. She met her husband, physicist Hugh Richards, there during the war.

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