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Russell H. Armitage

Textile Expert Manhattan, NY

Manhattan Project Veteran

Russell Armitage was a Textile Expert in the employment of The Kellex Corporation, a subsidiary of the M.W. Kellogg Company set up to work on the gaseous diffusion process. Armitage's family only discovered his participation in the project when they found a document that certified his work on The Atomic Bomb Manhattan District. 

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