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Vinton D. Carver

Project StaffOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Y-12 beta racetrack.

Vinton Carver worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

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