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Edwin E Thornton 1928 - 2008

Edwin E Thornton of Winterville, Clarke County, GA was born on July 9, 1928, and died at age 79 years old on February 28, 2008.
Edwin E Thornton
Winterville, Clarke County, GA 30683
July 9, 1928
February 28, 2008
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  • 07/9
    1928

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    July 9, 1928
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  • 02/28
    2008

    Death

    February 28, 2008
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    Edwin E Thornton lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1928, in the year that Edwin E Thornton was born, aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.
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In 1942, Edwin was only 14 years old 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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