Special Engineer Detachment
{{Short description|Manhattan Project personnel program}}
The Special Engineer Detachment (SED) was a US Army program that identified enlisted personnel with technical skills, such as machining, or who had some science education beyond high school. Those identified were organized into the Special Engineer Detachment, or SED. SED personnel began arriving at Los Alamos in October 1943. By August 1945, 1800 SED personnel worked at Los Alamos.{{sfn|Bederson|2004}} These troops worked in all areas and activities of the Laboratory, including the Trinity Test, and were involved in overseas operations on Tinian.
References
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=Sources=
- {{cite book
|title=Remembering the Manhattan Project: a Personal Memoir
|chapter=SEDs at Los Alamos
|author1-last=Bederson
|author1-first=Benjamin
|pages=81–88
|editor-last=Kelly
|editor-first=Cynthia C.
|publisher=World Scientific Publishing
|year=2004
|isbn=9812560408}}
Further reading
- {{citation|title=SEDs at Los Alamos: A Personal Memoir | year=2001 | pages=52–75|first=Benjamin | last=Bederson|journal=Physics in Perspective | volume=3 | issue=1 | publisher=Birkhäuser Verlag|location=Basel | doi=10.1007/s000160050056 | bibcode=2001PhP.....3...52B | s2cid=117157405 | url=http://bederson.org/bensr/SEDs%20at%20Los%20Alamos.pdf}}
- {{citation|title=Special Engineer Detachment | url=https://www.y12.doe.gov/sites/default/files/assets/document/08-04-17.pdf|website=Y-12 National Security Complex official website|publisher=United States Department of Energy}}
- {{citation|publisher=Library of Congress|work=Veterans History Project|title=Herbert M. Lehr Collection (Special Engineering Detachment 1943–1946)|date=2019-11-06|id=AFC/2001/001/12058|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/bib/12058}}
External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040215021159/http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/SED/SED-Main.htm Special Engineer Detachment - "Scientists in Uniform"]}} at childrenofthemanhattanproject.org