National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Hope Sloan was 25 in 1944, a dark-haired WAC corporal and secretary in military intelligence. In July, she joined the construction camp's morale-building effort by entering a beauty contest, part of an "exposition "promoting safety on and off the job.
Jim Johnson was an ordnanceman at Los Alamos from 1944 to 1945. He was born on January 8, 1926, and started work at the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Califiornia in 1944.
Kathleen “Kay” (Gavin) Florin was a clerk in the chemistry division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Bardolf Storaasli was an electrical engineer working for the Allis-Chalmers Company in West Allis, Wisconsin from 1937 to 1945.
