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Rudolph E. Rogers

Truck DriverTinian Island

Wendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Rudolph Rogers was a truck driver for the 1st Ordnance Squadron of the 509th Composite Group Stationed in Wendover, Utah and on Tinian Island in the Pacific. Rogers was on Tinian for the atomic missions, and seved in the unit from 1944 to 1945. 

Rudolph Rogers

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