Leslie Groves
Military Person
1896 – 1970
Who was Leslie Groves?
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 that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. As the son of a United States Army chaplain, Groves lived at a number of Army posts during his childhood. He graduated fourth in his class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1918 and was commissioned into the US Army Corps of Engineers. In 1929, he went to Nicaragua as part of an expedition whose purpose was to conduct a survey for the Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal. Following the 1931 Nicaragua earthquake, Groves took over responsibility for Managua's water supply system, for which he was awarded the Nicaraguan Presidential Medal of Merit. He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1935 and 1936, and the Army War College in 1938 and 1939, after which he was posted to the War Department General Staff.
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- Born
- Aug 17, 1896
Albany - Also known as
- Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves
- Gen. Leslie R. Groves
- Dick
- Leslie Richard (Dick) Groves Jr.
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Grace Wilson
(1922/02/10 - )
- Grace Wilson
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Washington
- United States Military Academy
- Command and General Staff College
- Lived in
- Albany
- Darien
- Died
- Jul 13, 1970
Washington, D.C. - Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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