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Leslie Groves
AKA: Leslie Richard Groves Jr.Birthday: 1896-08-17
Died: 1970-07-13
Birthplace: Albany, New York, USA
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.