National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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.
H. M. Atwood worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.
As a counselor at Oak Ridge, Marge Shipley was repsonsible for listening to and mediating the frustrations and anxieties of the female mechanics and operators working in the Y-12 plant.
