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.
Patricia L. Allebach was a laboratory technician in the Health Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
