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G. M. Stafford

K-25 Plant

G. M. Stafford worked for the Kellex Corporation at the K-25 Plant.

John Mench

Los Alamos, NM

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.

E. J. Swatba

Tinian Island

E. J. Swatba served in the 390th Air Service Group.

Franklin Matthias

Hanford, WA

Colonel Franklin Matthias (1908 – 1993) was the officer-in-charge at the Hanford site. Matthias, a civil engineer, had been a close associate of General Groves since the beginning of the Manhattan Project, and was asked to review sites in the West.