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| Groves and Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 1940s | Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Major General Leslie Groves and Colonel Franklin Matthias visiting the Hanford site for production of plutonium-239, Jul 1945, Benton County, Washington, United States. | J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity test site during a press visit, New Mexico, United States, 1 Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2 | J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity test site during a press visit, New Mexico, United States, 1 Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2 |
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| Portrait of Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, 1948 |
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