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Robert E. Bubenzer

Patrol CaptainHanford, WA

Project Worker/Staff
Hanford Listen to Robert E. Bubenzer’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Robert “Bob” Bubenzer was supervisor of Hanford plant protection for DuPont from 1943 until early 1945. Though he helped maintain order in Hanford, he said that he “got no pleasure in putting people in prison.” After the war, he worked in the construction industry in the Midwest. In this interview, Bubenzer recalls what it was like to work as a patrolman for DuPont.

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