National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Cowart was a design engineer with the Special Engineering Detachment for the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Lucy Mabins was a laboratory assistant in the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Allred worked as a chemical operator at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. While at Oak Ridge, she was nominated as a contestant in the “Miss Atomic Bomb” beauty pageant.
