Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Jeff Brinkerhoff

FiremanHanford, WA

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Hanford Listen to Jeff Brinkerhoff’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

In 1943, Jess Brinkerhoff was working at Du Pont's Remington Arms ammunition plant in Salt Lake City as a warehouse and shipping foreman. The plant was shut down and he transferred to Hanford as a fireman. His wife soon joined him, and they raised six children in an original Richland pre-fab; Brinkerhoff was still living there at the time of his interview in 1986.

Related Profiles

A. J. Bruckert

Hanford, WA

Edward M. Costello

Tinian Island

Edward M. Costello served as a captain in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the aircraft commander regularly assigned to the Laggin’ Dragon.

John H. Noble

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended Colgate University. 

F.L. Hunt

B Reactor/100 Area

Hunt worked at the 100-B Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.