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Wilma Dower 1915 - 1985

Wilma Dower of East Alton, Madison County, Illinois was born on August 27, 1915, and died at age 69 years old in February 1985.

Wilma Dower
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East Alton, Madison County, Illinois 62024
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August 27, 1915
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In 1915, in the year that Wilma Dower was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1942, at the age of 27 years old, Wilma was alive when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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Dower, Alice (Apr 23, 1899 - Aug 19, 1988) Dower, Mary (Feb 25, 1896 - May 1981) Dower Jr, Carolyn (Jun 16, 1918 - Mar 9, 1992) Dower, Ida (Aug 3, 1897 - Apr 26, 1990) Dower Jr, Raymond (Nov 10, 1916 - Aug 1967) Dower, James (Jun 26, 1889 - Sep 1964) Dower, Louella (Jun 12, 1898 - Apr 1983) Dower, Julie (Aug 10, 1913 - Jan 13, 2006) Dower, Violet (Dec 22, 1889 - Aug 1962) Dower, Florence (May 25, 1922 - Sep 26, 2005)
Dower, Roy (Aug 11, 1921 - Apr 17, 2007) Dower, Florence (May 25, 1922 - Sep 26, 2005) Dower, Maurice (Aug 24, 1912 - Jul 25, 1997) Dower, Monica (May 16, 1917 - Mar 8, 1999) Dower, Fred (Aug 15, 1882 - Dec 1968) Dower, Blanche (Feb 20, 1885 - Jan 1971) Dower, Francis (Aug 1, 1902 - May 1977) Dower, Agnes (Jun 20, 1891 - Feb 1963) Dower, Julia (Nov 23, 1890 - Nov 1973) Dower, Elizabeth (Dec 2, 1892 - Sep 1969)
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