Helen Atchley

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Helen Atchley worked at the Y-12 Plant during the Manhattan Project. She and her best friend, Dorothy Stinnett, are both pictured in Ed Westcott’s famous photograph of people going to work in the Y-12 Plant.

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