Herb Depke

Herb Depke arrived in Hanford in 1943 after his father was transferred by the DuPont Company to work as an expediter during the Manhattan Project. Depke recalls some of his childhood memories of Hanford, including the time he got lost after the school bus dropped him off after school but he could not figure out which house was his because they all looked the same. Depke also discusses how the atomic bomb saved his father’s life, as he was being trained as a port director for the impending invasion of Japan.