01-09  Jack H. Rose, Sr.

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Then  in March 1945, I was recruited for the 509th and the Manhattan Project and  transferred to Wendover from Langley, where as a machinist I worked on  the bomb, by assembling and fitting it to determine how and if it could be loaded into the bomb bay of a special B-29 for delivery over a target.  We knew nothing about the project at this time, accept that it was super secret, and we were literally hidden in this Utah desert location, a place not many people knew existed.  We were restricted to the base and even our mail was censored.  After the first bomb was successfully dropped, we were told, it was the project, that we were working on.
     I stayed at Wendover until after the second bomb was dropped and then in Sept. 1945 was transferred to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Sandia Base was being built, as another future part of the Manhattan Project.  I was there until April 1946, when I received my discharge from the Army Corps of Engineers."