Generals Groves And Farrell, 1945
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Generals Groves And Farrell, 1945
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Major General Thomas F. Farrell (right) and Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., (left), in 1945. The Manhattan Project was a research and development program by the United States with the United Kingdom and Canada that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. (August 17, 1896 - July 13, 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He directed the enormous construction effort, made critical decisions on the various methods of isotope separation, acquired raw materials, directed the collection of military intelligence on the German nuclear energy project and helped select the cities in Japan that were chosen as targets. Groves wrapped the Manhattan Project in security but failed to prevent the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from conducting a successful espionage program that stole some of its most important secrets. Major General Thomas Francis Farrell (December 3, 1891 - April 11, 1967) was the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Field Operations of the Manhattan Project, acting as executive officer to General Groves. He observed the Trinity test at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range with J. Robert Oppenheimer. In August 1945, he went to Tinian to supervise the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Afterwards he led teams of scientists to inspect the effects of the atomic bombs.
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