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General Thomas Francis Farrell (December 3, 1891 –April 1967) was the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Field Operations of the Manhattan Engineer District, acting as executive officer to General Leslie Groves. December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Control panels and operators for calutrons at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ...
Leslie Groves Leslie Richard Groves (August 17, 1896 - July 13, 1970) was a member of the United States Army who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. Born in Albany, New...
Before World War II
Farrell was born in 1891 in Troy, New York, and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1912. He served in the 1st Engineers in the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918. He resigned from the Regular Army in 1926, and as a civilian became the head of construction and engineering of the New York State Department of Public Works. Looking west down Broadway at downtown Troy. ...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a private university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer. ...
Officers of the American Expeditionary Force and the Baker mission The American Expeditionary Force or AEF was the United States military force in World War I. The AEF helped the French defend the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive in May. ...
State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...
The Manhattan Project In February 1941 at the direction of then-Colonel Groves, Farrell returned to active duty with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to act as Groves' executive officer in the Operations Branch of the Construction Division under the Office of the Quartermaster General. Gen. Farrell went to the China-Burma-India theatre to help build the Burma Road. On his return to the United States, Groves chose Farrell as his deputy, and Farrell was stationed in Los Alamos. China Burma India Theater (CBI) was the name used by the United States Army for its forces in China, Burma, India during World War II. Well-known US units in this theater included the Flying Tigers, transport and bomber units flying the Hump, the engineers who built Ledo Road, and...
The Burma Road is a road linking Burma (now Myanmar) and China. ...
Los Alamos National Laboratory, aerial view from 1995. ...
On signing a receipt for the plutonium from Oak Ridge, Farrell commented, "I recall that I asked them if I was going to sign for it shouldn't I take it and handle it. So I took this heavy ball in my hand and I felt it growing warm, I got a certain sense of its hidden power. It wasn't a cold piece of metal, but it was really a piece of metal that seemed to be working inside. Then maybe for the first time I began to believe some of the fantastic tales the scientists had told about this nuclear power." General Name, Symbol, Number plutonium, Pu, 94 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery white Atomic mass (244) g/mol Electron configuration [Rn] 5f6 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ...
Oak Ridge is a city located in Anderson and Roane Counties in eastern Tennessee, about 25 miles west of Knoxville. ...
Farrell supervised the Trinity test at Alamogordo, observing at the 10-mile bunker with Robert Oppenheimer. In August, he went to Tinian to hand-deliver the orders from President Truman to Col. Paul Tibbets (commander of the Enola Gay). He signed the bomb, "To Hirohito, with love, T. F. Farrell." An early stage in the Trinity fireball. ...
J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, served as the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, beginning in 1943. ...
Saipan, Tinian & Aguiguan (Click to enlarge) Tinian is one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. ...
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-fourth Vice President (1945) and the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953), succeeding to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ...
Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr. ...
Colonel Paul Tibbets waving from Enola Gays cockpit after the bombing of Hiroshima. ...
Emperor ShÅwa (Hirohito) Hirohito (裕ä») (April 29, 1901 – January 7, 1989) was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 to 1989. ...
Post-war On August 30, 1945, Farrell led teams of scientists to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to inspect the effects of the atomic bombs on those cities. August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
For the movie about the decision process behind the dropping of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, see Hiroshima (film). ...
Megane-bashi (Spectacles Bridge) Nagasaki (help· info) (長崎市; -shi, literally long peninsula) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture. ...
After the war, Farrell was promoted to the rank of Major General. He retired from active service in April 1946.
Farrell's daughter, Barbara Farrell Vucanovich, was the first woman from Nevada to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1983 to 1997. Farrell's granddaughter, Patty Cafferata, served as State Treasurer of Nevada from 1983 to 1987. Official language(s) None Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 7th 286,367 km² 519 km 788 km 0. ...
The chamber of the United States House of Representatives is located in the south wing of the Capitol building, in Washington, D.C.. This photograph shows a rare glimpse of the four vote tallying boards (the blackish squares across the top), which display each members name and vote as...
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