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Ward A. Bouvier

Machinist Chicago, IL

Manhattan Project Veteran
Ward Bouvier

Ward A. Bouvier served from November 1943 to the end of the war, designing and producing precision instruments used by the scientific personnel at the Met Lab of the University of Chicago.

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