I am pretty proud to say, my Father worked at Oak Ridge during the war.
In fact, I asked him one time in the late 50s or 60s, why he was not in the army. He just said, he wasn’t drafted.
If memory serves, he was a plumber.
“If memory serves, he was a plumber.”
I used to do a lot of contract work at the Hanford Site in Washington state where the reactors were. My mom told me one of their friends worked there during the war.
“He made airplane wings.”
“Um - mom. No he didn’t, that is where they developed the uranium to make the atom bomb.”
“No - I distinctly remember he told us how he made airplane wings - because of the electricity from the Grand Coulee Dam.”
“I believe you that that is what he told you. In fact he might have even thought that was what he was making - but they didn’t make airplane wings there.”