From the September 2014, Veterans Site "Tea With Einstein; Coffee With Oppenheimer; His Service in WWII: This Veteran Looks Back On his Life As He Turns 105."
On August 10, 2014, Carroll Dick will celebrate his 105th birthday with family and friends. He worked on the atom bomb for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and married for 69 years.
He currently resides in Chesterfield Township, Michigan after growing up in Michigan.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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Monday, September 28, 2015
World War II Museums Show Way To VJ Day-- Part 5: National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
It was new President Harry Truman who ultimately made the decision to drop the atom bombs on two Japanese cities-- Hiroshima and Nagasaki-- in August 1945. The devastating blasts brought the Japanese around to surrendering.
The impact of unleashing the then-new technology can be seen at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The atom bomb was developed at the "secret city" of Los Alamos, N.M., and the first test detonation occurred near Almogordo, N.M..
Curator David Hoover says, "We just present the facts. We let people draw their own conclusions."
--GreGen
The impact of unleashing the then-new technology can be seen at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The atom bomb was developed at the "secret city" of Los Alamos, N.M., and the first test detonation occurred near Almogordo, N.M..
Curator David Hoover says, "We just present the facts. We let people draw their own conclusions."
--GreGen
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