Thomas F. Farrell

American general (1891–1967)

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.

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  • The faith of those who had been responsible for the initiation and the carrying-on of this Herculean project had been justified. I personally thought of Blondin crossing Niagara Falls on his tightrope, only to me this tightrope had lasted for almost three years.
    • First hand account of the Trinity test (July 16, 1945); quoted in General Leslie R. Groves's memorandum for the Secretary of War (July 18, 1945); see Herbert Feis, "The Secret That Traveled to Potsdam", Foreign Affairs (January 1960)
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