National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Willie Anderson worked in the shop at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
James A. Beatson served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.
