Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Correspondence and Related Papers on the Manhattan Engineer District, 1943 - 1970.

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Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Correspondence and Related Papers on the Manhattan Engineer District, 1943 - 1970.

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This series contains records and correspondence created by Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. regarding the Manhattan Engineer District. Also included in the records is the 1949 King Features comic book "Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom" in which General Groves was an adviser.

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Groves, Leslie R. (Leslie Richard), 1896-1970

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Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970) 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. The son of a U.S. Army chaplain, Groves lived at various Army posts during his childhood. In 1918, he graduated fourth in his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned into the ...