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Alice Stein

Y-12 Plant

Before her time at Oak Ridge, Alice Stein was a stenographer. With a lack of need for stenographers, Alice began working in production for war planes until she asked to operate cyclotrons at the Y-12 plant.

John J. Mendl

Tinian Island

John Mendl was a member of the 1st Ordnance Squadron in the 509th Composite Group stationed on Tinian Island in the Pacific.

Dorothy Vanderford

Los Alamos, NM

Dorothy Vanderford (1973- ) is the granddaughter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although Vanderford never met her grandfather, she knows the family narrative well and her father, Peter Oppenheimer, was a child during the Oppenheimer trial.

Albert D. Alexander

Tinian Island

Albert D. Alexander served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.