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Radiation Lab Group 36 trainees, 1945
Courtesy MIT Museum
Group portrait of Radiation Laboratory Group 36 trainees, 1945. Appears in Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory(1946), an anniversary publication presented by MIT to Members of the Radiation Laboratory, 12 September 1945.
Widespread military enlistment during World War II left a vacuum in the American industrial labor force. MIT's hiring trends during this period reflected the country's. Between 1940 and 1945, the Institute increased recruitment of black and women research staff at the Radiation Laboratory and other wartime emergency units.
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1940s
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Lincoln Lab
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Order of Operations 1921-1945
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https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsatradia00mass
