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Victor R. Yack

Military PoliceLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
Front gate to the Los Alamos compound

Victor Yack was a member of the Military Police at Los Alamos and at Sandia Base in Albuquerque from 1946 to 1947. 

 

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