National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
W. D. Simms worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Kattie Strickland was part of the janitorial staff at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. Unlike the white women whom she worked along side, Ms.
John W. Porter served as a lieutenant colonel in the 390th Air Service Group.
Dorothy worked at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project as a “calutron girl.” After her brother was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, she was eager to join the war effort, and did so starting in 1944.
