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Thomas H. Olmstead

Project AlbertaTinian Island

Los Alamos, NMWendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Alberta

Thomas H. Olmstead worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Olmstead also worked at Los Alamos.

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