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John W. Latham

PrivateWendover, UT

Los Alamos, NM
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
Pvt. John William Latham. Photo courtesy of the Latham family.

 Served with the 216th AAF Base Unit at Wendover Airfield and at Los Alamos between May and December of 1945.  

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