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- He had served in the Merchant Marines prior to 1939 when he married Elizabeth Rix.
He left for Oakridge in Nov 42, where he helped build what he found out later to be the A-Bomb. Six months later my mother, brother and I joined him in Oakridge for 2 1/2 years. My father knew Robert Oppenheimer, had been in his home on base and had dinner with him, even though my father was not a high level scientist, but a draftsman/ machinists at the time and had yet to graduate from UC Berkeley, which he did in 1949. The first test of the A Bomb was in New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It is most likely that my dad was there. I do know that Dad was there for the first H bomb blast near Enewetak Oct. 31, 1952. I remember him leaving for the trip and Grandma DeWolf babysitting for Roger and me.
I was in 3rd grade at the time and we were living in Grandma's home in Oakland on Virmar Avenue. She had not been living there for a few years. I think she was in Texas with Coe after Grandpa died a few months before we returned from Oakridge- when I was about 3 1/2. This was the home which was the background for the movie clip you shared.
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1915 - 2010 (94 years)