Ernest J. Mekanas

Post Office AssistantLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Ernest Mekanas was a member of the Provisional Engineering Detachment at Los Alamos. Mekanas was in Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945, working primarily at the post office. After the war, he married June Topel and moved to San Diego, California.

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