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Philip C. Leahy

Grand Junction, CO

Philip C. Leahy was a Major in the United States Army. During World War II, he was placed in charge of establishing a domestic uranium procurement program for the Manhattan Project.

J. A. Brunildson

Hanford, WA

I. B. Venable

T-Plant/200 Areas

Venable worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

Nathaniel T. Burgwyn

Hiroshima Mission

Nathaniel T. Burgwyn served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radar operator of the B-29 Full House, which served as a weather reconnaissance plane on the Hiroshima bombing mission, and the backup strike plane on Iwo Jima on the Nagasaki mission.