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Leslie Richard Groves Jr.

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr.

Lieutenant General Leslie Groves

Leslie Groves, Acting

Albany, New York, USA | 1896-08-17 | 1970-07-13

Lieutenant General 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, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.