Leslie Groves
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 54 years ago |
Date of birth | August 17,1896 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Albany |
New York | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 13,1970 |
Died | Washington |
United States | |
Spouse | Grace Wilson |
Books | Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project |
Children | Richard Hulbert Groves |
Gwen Groves | |
Education | Command and General Staff College (CGSC) |
University of Washington | |
United States Military Academy | |
US Army War College | |
Parents | Leslie Richard Groves, Sr. |
Gwen née Griffith | |
Place of burial | Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 475762 |
Leslie Groves Life story
Lieutenant General 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, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.