National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
August Balestri was a laboratory assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
Leland worked in the 200 E Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
The following are excerpts from “Converging Lines,” a genealogy and family history book researched and written by Norma McKinney, as well as oral recollections from her in 2011 and Charles’ remembrances to his grandson in 1990 for an eighth grade report.
