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Dorothy L. Isgett

UnknownOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project Veteran
The K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Dorothy Isgett was a civilian worker at Oak Ridge Tennessee from 1943 to 1946. 

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