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Jane Jones Hutchins

SecretaryHanford, WA

Manhattan Project Veteran
Hanford Listen to Jane Jones Hutchins’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Jane Jones Hutchins, along with her younger sister, moved from small-town Kansas to Hanford to work as a secretary. She recalls social life at Hanford, a Christmas tree made of sagebrush, and an empty Hanford after the war.

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