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He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1935 and 1936, and the Army War College in 1938 and 1939, after which he was posted to the War Department General Staff. Groves developed "a reputation as a doer, a driver, and a stickler for duty".
In 1936, he graduated from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and from the Army War College in 1939, after which he was assigned to the General Staff in Washington. He was promoted to Major and Temporary Colonel in July and November 1940 and assigned first to the Office of the Quartermaster General and then to the ...
Leslie Richard Groves was an American army officer in charge of the Manhattan Engineer District (MED)—or, as it is commonly known, the Manhattan Project—which oversaw all aspects of scientific research, production, and security for the invention of the atomic bomb.
Grove attended the Command and General Staff School and the Army War College to expand his knowledge of Army leadership. He also completed two tours of duty in Washington, D.C. where he made connections among influential Army leaders, scientists, engineers, contractors, and corporations.
Project Y was the designation for the top-secret design and production of the atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project chose Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, to lead Project Y, which is today better known as Los Alamos.
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Promoted to captain in March 1935, Groves was selected to attend the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. After graduating, Groves was assigned to the Missouri River Division in Kansas City, Missouri, in June 1936, and worked on the Fort Peck hydroelectric dam project.
As commanding general of the Manhattan Project, Groves was brusque, plainspoken, and goal-oriented-a "decider" with little interest in the subtleties of diplomacy.
