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Clare Whitehead

Clare Whitehead joind the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1943. After training in the Manhattan Engineer District and working in Oak Ridge, she was recruited to be the “secretary safeguarding military information” at Hanford. She met her husband, Vincent “Bud” Whitehead in 1944 while they were both serving at Hanford.