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Robert E. Hayes

Marshall Islands

Robert “Bob” Hayes worked as an airplane mechanic on Kwajalein Island, maintaining Boeing B-29s. He talks about life in the Pacific during World War II, being trained to use a flamethrower on Iwo Jima, maintaining complicated airplane engines, and witnessing the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests.

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Y-12 Plant

W. J. Denton worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.