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Dodson “Dot” Marrs

CarpenterOak Ridge, TN

K-25 Plant
Manhattan Project Veteran
The K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Dodson Marrs worked in carpentry and concrete work at Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a part of the Manhattan Project. Although he was often required to spend long days working on the many complexes at Oak Ridge, he was never told what the project was for until an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

 

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