Leslie Groves
✓ Source-basedstableUnited States Army Corps of Engineers officer (1896-1970)
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Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, the top secret research program that developed the atomic bomb during World War II, leading to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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At West Point in 1918
Northwest exposure showing construction of the Pentagon, 1 July 1942
Groves ran the Manhattan Project from the fifth floor of the New War Department Building.
Groves (left) and Robert Oppenheimer
Groves at his desk, 1945
The Oak Ridge K-25 Plant
Groves and Brigadier General Thomas Farrell in 1945Filmography 7
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
The Day After Trinity
A Compassionate Spy
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
Death in Focus
BombshellAwards 7
Connected to Leslie 6
Douglas MacArthurAlso won Army of Occupation of Germany Medal
John GlennAlso won World War II Victory Medal
William Stuart-HoustonAlso won World War II Victory Medal
Ernest BorgnineAlso won American Campaign Medal
Chester W. NimitzAlso won World War I Victory Medal (United States)
Keith KelloggAlso won Army Staff Identification BadgeAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1896 to 1970 · aged 73
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