James S. Cole

Technical EngineerK-25 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN

EngineerManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment

Listen to James S. Cole’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

James S. Cole is an American engineer. He served as an airplane engineer during World War II, and began working at the K-25 plant at Oak Ridge, TN in 1945, shortly after the end of the war. Cole later worked at the Y-12 plant.

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