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Clare Whitehead joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1943. After training in the Manhattan Engineer District and working in Oak Ridge, she transferred to Hanford, where she was a secretary for military intelligence. She met her husband, Vincent “Bud” Whitehead, in 1944 while they were both serving at Hanford.

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