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Robert P. Matthews

Project AlbertaTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

Robert P. Matthews worked as a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the Fat Man and Little Boy atomic bombs.  

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