Special Engineer Detachment

The Special Engineer Detachment (SED) was a US Army program that identified enlisted personnel with technical skills, such as machining, or who had some science education beyond high school. Those identified were organized into the Special Engineer Detachment, or SED. SED personnel began arriving at Los Alamos in October 1943. By August 1945, 1800 SED personnel worked at Los Alamos.[1] These troops worked in all areas and activities of the Laboratory, including the Trinity Test, and were involved in overseas operations on Tinian.

## Contents

* 1 References
* 1.1 Sources
* 2 Further reading
* 3 External links

## References

1. ↑ Bederson 2004.

### Sources

* Kelly, Cynthia C., ed (2004). "SEDs at Los Alamos". Remembering the Manhattan Project: a Personal Memoir. World Scientific Publishing. pp. 81–88. ISBN 9812560408.

## Further reading

* Bederson, Benjamin (2001), "SEDs at Los Alamos: A Personal Memoir", Physics in Perspective (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag) 3 (1): 52–75, doi:10.1007/s000160050056, Bibcode: 2001PhP.....3...52B, http://bederson.org/bensr/SEDs at Los Alamos.pdf
* Special Engineer Detachment, United States Department of Energy, https://www.y12.doe.gov/sites/default/files/assets/document/08-04-17.pdf
* "Herbert M. Lehr Collection (Special Engineering Detachment 1943–1946)", Veterans History Project (Library of Congress), 2019-11-06, AFC/2001/001/12058, http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/bib/12058

## External links

* Special Engineer Detachment - "Scientists in Uniform" at childrenofthemanhattanproject.org

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