Kenneth E. Fields

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Kenneth E. Fields (1 February 1909 – 1 July 1996) was a United States Army officer who commanded the 1159th Engineer Combat Group in the Battle of Remagen during World War II, for which he was awarded the Silver Star for valor. Fields graduated as top cadet from the United States Military Academy class of 1933 and was commissioned in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He earned master's degrees in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938 and from Harvard University in 1939. After World War II ended he joined the Manhattan Project. He became the assistant to the director for military applications at the United States Atomic Energy Commission in 1947 and became its general manager upon his retirement from the Army in 1955.

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1. date of birth: 1909-02-01 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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