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Emerald C. Lyons, Jr.

Electrical Engineer Oak Ridge, TN

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

Emerald Lyons Jr. was an electrical engineer at Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1944 to 1945. 

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