VJ Day in Colour

WW2 - Celebrating VJ Day - In a photo by Ed Westcott, residents of Oak Ridge, TN, fill Jackson Square to celebrate the surrender of Japan. Oak Ridge was one of the three main sites of the Manhattan Project, and was responsible (though those working there did not know it) for refining uranium to be shipped to Los Alamos to be fashioned into atomic bombs. 14 August 1945

Alamos Atomic Bombs Colourisation Fill Refining Residents Responsible Ridge Shipped Sites Though Uranium Westcott

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