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Eugene L. Nooker

Project AlbertaTinian Island

Los Alamos, NMWendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProject AlbertaSpecial Engineer Detachment

Eugene L. Nooker worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He also served in the Special Engineer Detatchment (SED) at Los Alamos.

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