National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Louise Keaton worked as a Calutron girl at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN. Keaton was hired to work at Y-12 in 1944, when she was 18.
Marie Cardwell arrived in Oak Ridge in February, 1945. She was hired as the Document Librarian for the Y-12 Plant and held for the remainder of the Manhattan Project, and for several decades afterwards.
Nannilee Saunders set up the elementary at Los Alamos, NM, during the Manhattan Project. She began to work at Los Alamos in August 1943, working for 11 months while on a leave of absence from a college in Chicago.
