Thomas Farrell (general)
| Thomas Farrell | |
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Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell
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| Birth name | Thomas Francis Farrell |
| Born |
3 December 1891 Brunswick, New York |
| Died | 11 April 1967 (aged 75) Reno, Nevada |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1916–1946 1950–1952 |
| Rank |
 Major General
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| Service number | 0-227201 |
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| Awards |
Distinguished Service Cross Army Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit (2) Purple Heart Croix de guerre (France) |
| Relations |
Barbara Vucanovich (daughter) Patricia Dillon Cafferata (granddaughter) Peter Farrell (great-grandson) |
Major General Thomas Francis Farrell (3 December 1891 – 11 April 1967) was the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Field Operations of the Manhattan Project, acting as executive officer to Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr.
Farrell graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in civil engineering in 1912. During World War I, he served with the 1st Engineers on the Western Front, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de guerre. After the war, he was an instructor at the Engineer School, and then at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He resigned from the Regular Army in 1926 to become Commissioner of Canals and Waterway for the State of New York from 1926 to 1930, and head of construction and engineering of the New York State Department of Public Works from 1930 until 1941.
During World War II he returned to active duty as Groves' executive officer in the Operations Branch of the Construction Division under the Office of the Quartermaster General. He went to the China-Burma-India theater to help build the Ledo Road. In January 1945, Groves chose Farrell as his second-in-command of the Manhattan Project. Farrell observed the Trinity test at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range with J. Robert Oppenheimer. In August 1945, he went to Tinian to supervise the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Afterwards he led teams of scientists to inspect the effects of the atomic bombs.
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