National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Jose E. Valdez was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
E. L. Taliaferro worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.
Waldrop arrived at Oak Ridge in early 1944, directly after receiving his Army basic training. At Oak Ridge, he worked at the Y-12 plant during the Manhattan Project.
Barney J. O’Keefe served in the military as an ensign during the war. He was a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
