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Leonard Motichko

Project AlbertaTinian Island

Wendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProject Alberta

Leonard Motichko worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs in August 1945. Motichko also served in the Army at Los Alamos.

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