National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
LeRoy Thornton worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
J. G. Cothran served in the 390th Air Service Group.
Stephen Lawroski was an American chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory from 1944-1946.
Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
