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Leslie Groves

United States Army Corps of Engineers officer

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born: 1896
died: 1970
age at death: 73
known for: military engineer, army officer

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who leslie groves is

Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, the top secret research program that developed the atomic bomb during World War II, leading to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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