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Opal Rea Wheeler 1918 - 2011

Opal Rea Wheeler of Portland, Multnomah County, OR was born on August 19, 1918, and died at age 92 years old on August 7, 2011. Opal Wheeler was buried at Willamette National Cemetery Section 2 Site 875 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland.

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Portland, Multnomah County, OR 97206
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August 19, 1918
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    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: MSGT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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In 1918, in the year that Opal Rea Wheeler was born, on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.
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In 1942, at the age of 24 years old, Opal 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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Wheeler, B. Wheeler, Wilma (Jan 19, 1901 - 1964) Wheeler, Mary (Born 1897) Wheeler, Carmen (Nov 26, 1902 - Mar 1978) Wheeler, Ormand (Born Apr 5, 1906) Wheeler, Holland (Born Aug 27, 1898) Nichols, Eula (Born Sep 16, 1896) Wheeler, Edith (Born Dec 10, 1892) Wheeler, Arthur (Born Apr 22, 1846) Wheeler, Bessie (Born Dec 1879)
Wheeler, John (Born 1848) Morris-Wheeler, Sarah (Born 1851) Wheeler, Robert (Born Mar 13, 1875) Wheeler, Elizabeth (Born c. 1816) Wheeler, Harvey (Born Jul 8, 1889) Wheeler, Roy (Born Jul 1, 1894) Wheeler, Catherine Dady (Born Jul 18, 1851) Wheeler, Samuel James K. (Born Jun 23, 1850) Wheeler, Catherine (Born Jun 18, 1851) Wheeler, Samuel (Born Jun 23, 1850)
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