Leslie Groves
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (August 17, 1896 – July 13, 1970) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer. He helped construct the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, which helped create the atomic bomb during World War II.
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 Leslie Groves, pictured here as a major general. | |
| Birth name | Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. |
| Born | August 17, 1896 Albany, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 13, 1970 (aged 73) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Place of burial | Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, U.S. |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service/branch |  United States Army |
| Years of service | 1918–1948 |
| Rank |  Lieutenant General |
| Unit |  Corps of Engineers |
| Commands held | Armed Forces Special Weapons Project Manhattan Project |
| Battles/wars | World War I Occupation of Nicaragua World War II |
| Awards | Army Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit Order of the Crown (Belgium) Companion of the Order of the Bath (United Kingdom) Medal of Merit (Nicaragua) |
| Other work | Vice President Sperry Rand |
Groves had a heart attack on July 13, 1970.[1] He died a few hours later at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at age 73.[2][3]
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Portrait of Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (1896–1970) at West Point in 1918 from The Howitzer: The Yearbook of the United States Corps of Cadets, 1918-11, page 65. "This class entered the United States Military Academy June 15, 1916 and on November 1, 1918, completed the course then prescribed which was known as the War Emergency Course."
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
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Groves and Brigadier General Thomas Farrell in 1945
Groves and Oppenheimer at the Trinity test site in September 1945. The white overshoes were to prevent fallout from sticking to the soles of their shoes.
Presentation of the Army-Navy "E" Award at Los Alamos on 16 October 1945. Standing, left to right: Oppenheimer, unidentified, unidentified, Kenneth Nichols, Groves, Robert Sproul, William Parsons.
From left to right in a November 1969 photo: Glenn Seaborg, President Richard Nixon and the three awardees of the Atomic Pioneers Award: Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, and Groves
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References
- ↑ Headed A-Bomb Development – Heart Attack Claims Life Of Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves (1970). 15 July 1970. pp. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11914975/headed_abomb_development_heart/. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
- ↑ "A-bomb's boss dies after heart attack". Eugene Register-Guard (Oregon): 1A. 14 July 1970. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mjJWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3673%2C2810922. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
- ↑ "General dies". Spokane Daily Chronicle ((Washington)): 1. 14 July 1970. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fJNYAAAAIBAJ&pg=6038%2C3424236. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
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