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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.

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