Groves, Leslie Richard, Jr., LTG

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Last Rank
Lieutenant General

Last Service Branch
Engineer Corps

Last Primary MOS
1328-Engineer Construction Unit Commander

Last MOS Group
Engineer

Primary Unit
1947-1948, 1328, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP)

Service Years
1918 - 1948

Official/Unofficial US Army Certificates

Cold War Certificate

Engineer Corps

Lieutenant General

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Personal Details

Home State

New York

New York

Year of Birth
1896

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Home Town Albany	Last Address Washington, D.C.
Date of Passing Jul 13, 1970
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia

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Army Staff Identification

US Army Retired (Pre-2007)

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Engineer Shoulder Cord

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National Cemetery Administration (NCA)


	1970, National Cemetery Administration (NCA)

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

Retired from active duty, 29 FEB 1948.

Vice - President of Sperry Rand 1948 - 1961.

Wrote the book, Now It Can Be Told...the True Account of the Manhatten Project, published in 1962.

1916-1918, United States Military Academy, West Point

FromYear 1916	ToYear 1918
College United States Military Academy, West Point
Major Engineering

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	Website http://www.usma.edu/

Last Updated:Jun 16, 2011

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Bryan, Blackshear, LTG, (1922-1960)

Buechler, Theodore, BG, (1914-1953)

Byers, Clovis Ethelbert, LTG, (1920-1959)

Caffey, Eugene Mead, MG, (1918-1956)

Cameron, Douglas Tilford, 1LT, (1916-1918)

Casey, Hugh John, MG, (1918-1949)

Chamberlin, Guy Russell, 2LT, (1917-1918)

Chambers, William, BG, (1916-1946)

Clark, Mark Wayne, GEN, (1917-1953)

Clay, Lucius Dubignon, GEN, (1918-1949)

Collier, John, LTG, (1916-1958)

Collins, Joseph Lawton, GEN, (1917-1956)

Cota, Norman Daniel, MG, (1917-1946)

Cowles, Miles, BG, (1917-1953)

Dalbey, Josiah Tonet, BG, (1916-1952)

Eagles, William, MG, (1917-1953)

Eyster, George, BG, (1917-1950)

Farrell, Francis William, LTG, (1920-1960)

Fellers, Bonner, BG, (1918-1946)

Ferenbaugh, Claude Birkett, LTG, (1918-1958)

Finley, Thomas, MG, (1916-1947)

Flory, Lester, BG, (1918-1946)

Ford, William, BG, (1920-1954)

Fry, James, BG, (1922-1957)

Futch, Theodore, BG, (1917-1954)

Gallagher, Philip, MG, (1918-1957)

Gard, Robert, MG, (1918-1959)

Garvin, Crump, MG, (1920-1958)

Goodman, John, BG, (1916-1946)

Gruenther, Alfred, GEN, (1918-1956)

Halsey, Milton, MG, (1917-1953)

Harding, Horace, BG, (1917-1953)

Harmon, Ernest, MG, (1917-1948)

Harper, Arthur, MG, (1917-1953)

Harriman, Joseph, BG, (1920-1950)

Harris, Frederick, BG, (1920-1954)

Harrison, William Kelly, LTG, (1917-1957)

Hartness, Harlen, MG, (1918-1954)

Hasbrouck, Robert Wilson, MG, (1917-1947)

Hasbrouck, Sherman, BG, (1920-1955)

Hayden, Frederic, BG, (1920-1955)

Henning, Frank, BG, (1920-1954)

Hewett, Hobart, MG, (1918-1960)

Hibbs, Louis, MG, (1916-1947)

Hinds, John, MG, (1918-1956)

Hinds, Sidney, BG, (1920-1947)

Hodes, Henry, GEN, (1920-1959)

Hoffman, Hugh, BG, (1918-1951)

Hoge, William Morris, GEN, (1916-1955)

Holbrook, David Stanley, 1LT, (1919-1926)

Holbrook, Willard Ames, BG, (1918-1946)

Holdrigde, Herbert, BG, (1917-1944)

Holly, Joseph, BG, (1918-1951)

Holman, Jonathan, MG, (1918-1956)

Honnen, George, MG, (1917-1957)

Hurdis, Charles, MG, (1917-1946)

Hutchings, Henry, BG, (1908-1949)

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Irving, Frederick, MG, (1917-1954)

Jackson, Harold, BG, (1917-1953)

Johns, Dwight, BG, (1916-1949)

Kane, Paul, BG, (1916-1949)

Kean, William Benjamin, LTG, (1918-1954)

Keerans, Charles Leslie Jr., BG, (1919-1943)

Keiser, Laurence B, MG, (1917-1953)

Kelly, Paul, BG, (1918-1951)

Kendall, Paul, LTG, (1918-1957)

Keyser, George, BG, (1918-1954)

Kiefer, Homer, MG, (1920-1953)

Kilburn, Charles, BG, (1917-1946)

Kramer, Hans, BG, (1918-1945)

Lanahan, Francis, MG, (1916-1955)

Lange, Otto, BG, (1916-1947)

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Lewis, James, BG, (1920-1954)

Lewis, Thomas, BG, (1922-1953)

Lewis, Warfield, COL, (1917-1950)

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Mathewson, Lemuel, LTG, (1918-1958)

McAuliffe, Anthony Clement, GEN, (1918-1956)

McBride, Horace Logan, LTG, (1916-1954)

McBride, Robert, BG, (1916-1952)

McClure, Mark, MG, (1922-1957)

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McGinley, Eugene, MG, (1918-1955)

McMahon, William, MG, (1917-1949)

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Melasky, Harris, MG, (1917-1946)

Menoher, Darrow, LTC, (1922-1943)

Mickle, Gerald, BG, (1918-1946)

Middleton, John, BG, (1918-1954)

Miley, William M., MG, (1918-1955)

Miller, Maurice, BG, (1916-1950)

Mitchell, William, BG, (1920-1955)

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