Provisional Engineer Detachment

Jane Heydorn was a Manhattan Project WAC and electronics technician, who helped to develop bomb-testing equipment at Los Alamos. During World War II, Heydorn enlisted in the Women’s Army Corp and arrived in Los Alamos in 1944. Her first job there was as a telephone operator, monitoring telegram and teletype messages from Army intelligence. She […]

Dorothea lived in Chicago and was assigned to Dr. Robert Oppenheimer’s office in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.