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| Below is a collection of "anecdotes" or comments provided about a Manhattan Project veteran. Please "click" on a name below to go directly to that veteran's anecdote or simply page down to view them all. |
Manhattan Project Veteran Anecdotes
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| Lewis Walden | Peter Benedict | Bernard Ticich |
| Jerome O. Ackerman | Gordon C. Chapel | Norman R. Gilbert |
| Sam Davalos | "Black Mike" Donegan | Evelyn Seargent |
| Name: Lewis
Welden |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: Military Police Information Provided By: Anthony DePaulo, MP |
In charge of the military police patrol dogs at Los Alamos. |
| Name: Peter
Benedict |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: Military Police Information Provided By: Anthony DePaulo, MP |
Cpl Benedict took his job very seriously and delighted in sneaking up on other MP's at night to see if they had fallen asleep while on duty. |
| Name: Bernard
Ticich |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: Military Police Information Provided By: Anthony DePaulo, MP |
Bernard was nicknamed "Sneezy" because of the way his last name sounded when you said it fast. He had a great sense of humor, and when he was on KP duty, he made the men line up outside and "present brooms" for inspection. |
| Name: Jerome
O. Ackerman |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: SED's Information Provided By: John Weil, SED |
Major "Jerry" Ackerman was the epitome of an "officer and a gentleman". Kind, considerate, polite, and very bright. A civil engineer by profession. He was my boss, directly and indirectly, at different times. He was heavily involved with S Site and Anchor Ranch. |
| Name: Gordon
C. Chapel |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: U.S. Navy Information Provided By: John Weil, SED |
Gordon was a Navy Lt. - a mechanical engineer. He ran a mechanical design office at S Site. Like Major Ackerman, a very fine man. "Chappie" stayed on the Hill. Had a tragic life...and, death. |
| Name: Norman
R. Gilbert |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: U.S. Navy Information Provided By: John Weil, SED |
Like Gordon Chapel, Norman Roland Gilbert was also a Naval officer (Lt.) and a mechanical engineer. A graduate of Brown Univ, he was from Braintree, MA. He married on the Hill and returned East. |
| Name: Sam
Davalos |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: Army, Capt. Information Provided By: John Weil, SED |
Capt. Sam Davalos was a civil engineer. I accompanied him to what became Trinity Site. MacDonald was still living there and still had his cattle there. Sam read him the "riot act" and told him to "git" or the MP's would be back and they all liked beef. |
| Name: Mary
Michael Donegan |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: WAAC Information Provided By: James Osborn, SED |
Mary Michael Donegan Raub Harris Faraday, born 11/5/1919 aka "Black Mike"; a raven haired and quite beautiful belle of the campus. She was later the mother of Mel Harris, a TV movie actress. She worked in Eric Jette's crucible fabrication group in Q Building where she lung-ingested beryllium oxide which cause berylliosis that resulted in her premature death. |
| Name: Evelyn
Seargent |
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Photo | Location: Los Alamos Assigned Unit: WAAC Information Provided By: James Osborn, SED |
Evelyn married SED Harvey Slatin, Sigma Building's reigning ElectroChem Czar. She worked with "Black Mike" in Q Building but I never heard if she had Be lung also. |
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