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Ina Cooper

Project StaffOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Ina Cooper in 1944

Ina Irene Cooper worked on the Manhattan Project for Union Carbide and Carbon Company and for Ford, Bacon, and Davis in Oak Ridge, TN, in 1944-45.

Ina Cooper’s Union Carbon and Carbide ID card

Ina Cooper’s gas ration card

Ina Cooper’s certificate from the War Department for her work on the Manhattan Project

Ina Cooper

Newspaper clipping about Ina Cooper

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