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(’17 AUGUST 1896′ – ’13 JULY 1970′)
(born in (‘albany’ / ‘NY’))
(3rd son)
(2 older brothers)
(1 younger sister)
(his father was a ‘pastor’)
(‘sixth presbyterian church’)
(left the church in ‘december 1896’ to become a ‘US army chaplain’)
(half-welsh / half-english)
(with some ‘french huguenot’ ancestors who came to ‘united states’ in the ’17th century’)
(died at ‘age 73’)
(suffered ‘heart attack’ caused by ‘chronic calcification of aortic valve’)
(transported to ‘walter reed army medical center’ in ‘washington DC’)
(died that night)
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(lieutenant general “leslie richard groves junior” (’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’)
(as the son of a ‘united states army chaplain’, ‘groves’ lived at a number of ‘army posts’ during his ‘childhood’)
(he graduated ‘4th’ in his class at the ‘united states military academy’ at ‘west point’ in ‘1918’ and was commissioned into the ‘US Army Corps of Engineers’)
(in 1929, he went to ‘nicaragua’ as part of an ‘expedition’ whose purpose was to conduct a survey for the ‘Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal’)
(following the ‘1931 nicaragua earthquake’, ‘groves’ took over responsibility for managua’s water supply system, for which he was awarded the ‘nicaraguan presidential medal of merit’)
(he attended the ‘command and general staff school’ at (‘fort leavenworth’ / ‘kansas’) in ‘1935’ and ‘1936’, and the ‘army war college’ in ‘1938’ and ‘1939’, after which he was posted to the ‘war department general staff’)
(in ‘1940’, groves, who “had a ‘reputation’ as a ‘doer’, a ‘driver’, and a ‘stickler’ for ‘duty'”, became ‘special assistant for construction’ to the ‘quartermaster general’, tasked with inspecting ‘construction sites’ and checking on their ‘progress’)
(in ‘august 1941’, he was given responsibility for the gigantic ‘office complex’ to house the war department’s 40,000 staff which would ultimately become the ‘pentagon’)
(in ‘september 1942’, ‘groves’ took charge of the ‘manhattan project’)
(he was involved in most aspects of the atomic bomb’s ‘development’)
(he participated in the selection of ‘sites’ for ‘research’ and ‘production’ at (‘oak ridge’ / ‘tennessee’); (‘los alamos’ / ‘new mexico’); and (‘hanford’ / ‘washington’))
(he directed the enormous ‘construction effort’, made ‘critical decisions’ on the various methods of ‘isotope separation’, acquired ‘raw materials’, directed the collection of ‘military intelligence’ on the ‘german nuclear energy project’, and helped select the cities in ‘japan’ that were chosen as ‘targets’)
(‘groves’ wrapped the ‘manhattan project’ in security but failed to prevent the ‘union of soviet socialist republics’ (aka ‘soviet union’?) from conducting a successful ‘espionage program’ that ‘stole’ some of its most important ‘secrets’)
(after the ‘war’, ‘groves’ remained in charge of the ‘manhattan project’ until responsibility for ‘nuclear weapons production’ was handed over to the ‘united states atomic energy commission’ in ‘1947’)
(he then headed the ‘armed forces ‘special weapons’ project’, which had been created to control the ‘military aspects’ of ‘nuclear weapons’)
(he was given a ‘dressing down’ by the ”chief of staff’ of the ‘united states army’ (and ”general’ of the ‘army’) ‘dwight d eisenhower’, and told that he would never be appointed ‘chief of engineers’)
(3 days later, ‘groves’ announced his intention to leave the ‘army’)
(he was promoted to ‘lieutenant general’ just before his retirement on ’29 february 1948′ in recognition of his leadership of the ‘bomb program’)
(by a special ‘act of congress’, his ‘date of rank’ was backdated to 16 july 1945′ (the date of the ‘trinity nuclear test’))
(he went on to become a ‘vice president’ at ‘sperry rand’)
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