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Barney J. O’Keefe

X-UnitTinian Island

Wendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProject Alberta
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

Barney J. O’Keefe served in the military as an ensign during the war. He was a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He worked on the X-Unit and helped assemble the Fat Man bomb before the bombing of Nagasaki. 

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