Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Horace R. Hood

Construction WorkerOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project Veteran
Herbert Hood and his family in Kingston, Tennesee

Horace Hood set up equipment for the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He and his family lived in Kingsport, Tennessee while Hood commuted to Oak Ridge through a series of security checkpoints each day. 

Horace Hood's certificate from the Secretary of War verifying his service in the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

C. B. Reilly

Oak Ridge, TN

Reilly worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.

George P. McCracken

Los Alamos, NM

H.E. Smith

T-Plant/200 Areas

Smith worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Lorraine Barbic

Chicago, IL

Lorraine Barbic was a technical worker in the Chemical Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.