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Fay L. Cunningham Collection (1 of 2)

Special Engineer Detachment - Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Operation Crossroads

Fay Cunningham was a member of the Special Engineer Detachment and was assigned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked on the development of crucibles for the reduction of uranium and plutonium at Los Alamos.  He was in a group of 9 graduates (out of a class of 30) of the mechanical engineering ASTP at the Univ. of Maryland who were transferred to the Manhattan Engineer District at Oak Ridge.  In 1946 he was attached to Operation Crossroads to monitor radiation.

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Biography of Fay Cunningham - Page 1 of 3 Biography of Fay Cunningham - Page 2 of 3 Biography of Fay Cunningham - Page 3 of 3 ASTP Class at the Univ. of Maryland - 1944 MED Certificate - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Special Orders Assigning Men of the ASTP Program at U. of Maryland to Special Engineer Detachment ID Card - Operation Crossroads Machine Developed for Tamping Crucibles for Final Reduction of Uranium and Plutonium at Los Alamos Staff ID Card - Joint Task Force One - Operation Crossroads - July 1946 Radiological Safety Section - Initial Boarding Team 8 - USS Shakamaton - Bikini Lagoon - Operation Crossroads - July 1946

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Hospital Ship U.S.S. Haven - Home Base for Radiological Safety Section - Operation Crossroads - Bikini Atoll - July 1946

Congratulatory Letter to Enlisted Men of the Radiological Safety Section - Operation Crossroads - Col. Stafford Warren - 8/10/46

Personal Congratulatory Letter to Fay Cunningham - Radiological Safety Section - Operation Crossroads - Col. Stafford Warren - 9/1/46 Article Appearing in Kalamazoo Gazette re: Fay Cunningham - Tuesday - 8/5/95 - Page 1 of 3 Article Appearing in Kalamazoo Gazette re: Fay Cunningham - Tuesday - 8/5/95 - Page 2 of 3

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Article Appearing in Kalamazoo Gazette re: Fay Cunningham - Tuesday - 8/5/95 - Page 3 of 3 Letter from Fay Cunningham to Defense Nuclear Agency About Radiation Exposure While at Operation Crossroads - 10/12/87 - Page 1 of 4 Letter from Fay Cunningham to Defense Nuclear Agency About Radiation Exposure While at Operation Crossroads - 10/12/87 - Page 2 of 4 Letter from Fay Cunningham to Defense Nuclear Agency About Radiation Exposure While at Operation Crossroads - 10/12/87 - Page 3 of 4 Letter from Fay Cunningham to Defense Nuclear Agency About Radiation Exposure While at Operation Crossroads - 10/12/87 - Page 4 of 4

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Reply from Defense Nuclear Agency - 1/29/88 - See Prior Correspondence Attachment - Individual Radiation Dose Reconstruction - Fay Cunningham - Operation Crossroads Memorandum - Revised Radiation Dose Calculations - Fay Cunningham - Operation Crossroads - 12/1/87 - Page 1 of 4 Memorandum - Revised Radiation Dose Calculations - Fay Cunningham - Operation Crossroads - 12/1/87 - Page 2 of 4 Memorandum - Revised Radiation Dose Calculations - Fay Cunningham - Operation Crossroads - 12/1/87 - Page 3 of 4

 

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