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Clifford C. Bayless
March 14, 2018
Clifford worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. 
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Victor A. Miller
June 16, 2016
Victor A. Miller was a Lieutenant in the US Navy who went to Tinian Island as a part of Project Alberta. 
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Gunnar Thornton
August 5, 2015
Gunnar Thornton was a nuclear physicist and engineer that served in the Special Engineer Detachment (SED) at Los Alamos and on Project Alberta in Tinian. His father, Jens Thorton, was an electrical engineer employed by Stone & Webster engineering firm during the Manhattan Project Thornton was recruited into the Manhattan Project straight out of Harvard. […]
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Edward C. Stephenson
August 4, 2015
Edward C. Stephenson served in Project Alberta and the United States Naval Reserves.
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Theodore Perlman
July 22, 2015
Theodore Perlman was an American engineer working at the Los Alamos laboratory during the Manhattan Project. He was 23 when he took part in the deadly “tickling the dragon’s tail” experiment with Louis Slotin. He only received 7 rads of radiation from the accident and survived without showing any clinical or laboratory evidence of radiation […]
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George T. Reynolds
July 20, 2015
George T. Reynolds was an American physicist and a Naval officer during the Manhattan Project. Reynolds was born in Trenton, NJ on May 27, 1917. He received a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in 1939 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1943. After receiving his Ph.D., Reynolds was commissioned as an ensign in the US […]
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Wesley R. Prohs
Wesley R. Prohs served in the United States Naval Reserve. He also worked as a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 
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Thomas H. Olmstead
July 14, 2015
Thomas H. Olmstead worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Olmstead also worked at Los Alamos.
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Barney J. O’Keefe
Barney J. O’Keefe served in the military as an ensign during the war. He was a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He worked on the X-Unit and helped assemble the Fat Man bomb before the bombing […]
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Eugene L. Nooker
Eugene L. Nooker worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He also served in the Special Engineer Detatchment (SED) at Los Alamos.