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Velva Irwin

Y-12 Plant

Velva Irwin worked as a Calutron girl at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN. She was only 16 when she began working on the Manhattan Project.

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Thornton worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

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