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W.K. “Mac” MacCready

LiaisonHanford, WA

T-Plant/200 Areas
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Hanford Listen to W.K. “Mac” MacCready’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

A Missourian by birth, W.K. ("Mac") MacCready held undergraduate and graduate degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Alabama. He worked as a liaison between construction and operations team, and later as a supervisor at the construction plant. His wife, Vera Jo MacCready was from Alabama, and came to join her husband in June 1944.
 

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