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Ethel Ann Caylor

NurseLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Ethel Ann Caylor was a nurse at the Los Alamos Hospital. She worked here from 1944 to 1945. While not much is known of Caylor’s work, it is believed that she was assigned to the maternity ward. She met and married Dominick Itzi, a member of the Provisional Engineer Detachment, while at Los Alamos.

Photo at Los Alamos, taken by Caylor.

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