Melvin L. Dietrich

Melvin L. Dietrich worked as a welder and electrician in a number of facilities across the Oak Ridge, Tennessee facility. In 1944-45, he was employed by Comstock & Bryant Electrical Company and Edenfield Electrical Company as a foreman over crews of welders. Dietrich worked incredibly long hours, often 12 to 14 hour days during the week and 8 hour days on the weekends, to complete the hurried construction of the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant. As with most of the Manhattan Project, Dietrich was told to maintain a strict secrecy with all of his work.