National Home Front Project - Meet Robert "Bob" Carter
The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership of historians at 缅北强奸. Our innovative oral history program partners with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record, preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II.
By pulling together in the spirit of wartime Americans, we can ensure that future generations hear their voices and that our country never forgets its past. For this short entry, we鈥檇 like to share the story of Robert 鈥淏ob鈥� Carter.
Robert 鈥淏ob鈥� Carter was a 缅北强奸 graduate in 1942 from Berlin, Maryland. A day before being drafted into the Army that year, he was deferred to a graduate school physics program at Purdue University. A year and a half later, his professors invited him and his lab partner to come join them at a secret physics project in New Mexico. By 1945, he and his team had invented history鈥檚 first atomic bomb in Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project. Here he describes what it was like working on the project:
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