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    "ocrText": "-16-\nOppy was project director and boss, and these other people were there to\nserve and they would report to civilians. They might be lab technicians, might\nbe a chemist, or anything else. They reported right to Oppy's civilian organi-\nzation. There was no military chains in any way to these people. But Nichols,\nas I recall, didn't come inside the tech area, except possibly he went to say\nhello to Oppy. There was no inspection of the facilities by Nichols or anyone\nelse. Oppy ran it. ] He had a\nunit. He had F.K. Allen from\nChicag o and he had these otherpeople programming. And Admiral Parr - - he\nwas then Captain Parr --one of the great, fine pe ople I've known, had the\nOrdnance. He brought a lot of military people in to convert this thing from\na gadget into a weapon that you could put inside a plane where it wouldn't fall\nand wouldn't tumble, and SO forth. He had all the ordnance aspects, plus the\nordnance aspects And among these people was Lt. Commander Bradbury,\nS.\nTRUMAN\nlater Commander Bradbury, Lt. Commander, the man on the gun.\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nSERVICE\nLAMONT: Julian Mac\nGOVERNMENT\nSMITH No. No it was some fellow up at Harvard. The name slips\nme at this minute. And he had Kistikowsky, who came in later and his key men\nwere Bada, Bach--well Bach I wouldn't count in there, Joe Kennedy in chemistry,\nCyril Smith in Metallurgy, Fermi, and there's the ideal of them all. This man\nwas just tremendous, because Fermi was a physicist and went into the\ntheoretical aspects, but also was an experimentalist.\nLAMONT: You were, being with the military out there, you must\nhave watched some of these GI's operating, some of the married ones that\nhad their wives there, who had no purpose to speak of, because they didn't"
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