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Lester Bowls

ConstructionHanford, WA

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Hanford Listen to Lester Bowls’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Lester Bowls worked at DuPont war plants before becoming a construction expediter at Hanford. After construction was finished at Hanford, we worked in operations in the 300 Area. After the war, he worked for Boeing. He called himself "a guy with a fourth-grade Arkansas education who raised seven kids, and five went to college."
 

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