John Mench was assigned to the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos where he worked as a pattern maker, creating wooden casts for metal work at the site’s foundry.
John Mench
Pattern MakerLos Alamos, NM
Oak Ridge, TNTrinity Site
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment
Listen to John Mench’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project