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Ruth Hale DeWire

WifeLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Ruth De Wire's Los Alamos ID badge photo

Ruth DeWire accompanied her husband, physicist John DeWire, to Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

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