That brought back some memories for DeMoise.īut she said the memory of that time and that work has never been far from her mind. Paul Tibbets, died Thursday at the age of 92. She was helping to develop the device that would hide the Enola Gay from Japanese radar, allowing the plane to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. She worked at Bendix Aviation in Philadelphia, at a time when "aviation" was synonymous with national defense.īut nobody - family, friends or anybody else not directly involved with the project - knew the specific nature of what she was working on. It's only been during the past 10 years or so that Ann DeMoise of York has been able to talk to her family about the work she did during World War II.Īt the time, DeMoise said, people had a general idea of what she was doing.
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Her story from the York Daily Record follows: And just recently, we learn of a York County woman, Ann Demoise, who worked on a device that would reduce detection of the Enola Gay by Japanese radar. Companies involved represented a who's who of county industry: York Corporation (Yorkco), Read Machinery Co., York Safe & Lock Co., New York Wire Cloth Co. Yeaple was perhaps the last York countian to die in World War II. The Indianapolis had just dropped off atomic bomb parts and was on to another mission.
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Indianapolis when it went down after a Japanese torpedo attack. The death of Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets prompts York County connections to the atomic bomb: Background post: "Little Johnny" called for Allies in World War II and Her words helped win the war'. Although the company did produce ordnance, the refrigeration it produced - for example, to preserve food on big ships crossing great oceans - aided the war effort." And one other project made a difference in the war: Yorkco was involved in the Manhattan Project. That speech and others in York Corporation's shop marks Yorkco's commitment to stick to the knitting - cooling and refrigeration equipment for the Allies. And a modern war machine can't keep going without refrigeration. My book "In the thick of the fight" described this scene: "Soon after Pearl Harbor, York (Pa.) Corporation President Stewart Lauer stood on a truck bed to tell workers the world was embroiled in a war of ships and machines.