Background from the records of Lt. Donald Lindberg USN (283090)1100

This information extracted and provided by Paul Roales.

• Graduate of US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, May 1943 as an unrestricted line officer

• Assigned to USS Benson (DD-421) during WWII

• Assigned to USS Craven (DD-382)

• Graduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Assigned to USS Rochester (CA-124)

• Assigned to Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP) mid 1948

• Left AFSWP mid 1951 to attend flight school

• Assigned as a pilot in Maryland attached to VC-7

• Jan 15, 1958, selected for promotion to Commander

About 57 documents of Lt Lindberg's records were marked RESTRICTED and 3 were marked SECRET.  Paul Roales contacted the Department of the Navy's Automatic Declassification Program to check the status of the documents. He subsequently received their approval to use any of the documents.

In the scan titled Signatures001.jpg Lt Lindberg is leaving AFSWP and receives a letter of recommendation with the following original signatures

Duncan P. MacDougall (unofficial Chief Weaponeer at Los Alamos)

N. E. Bradbury (Second Director of Los Alamos Laboratory)

Carrol L. Tyler (Head of the AEC Oversight Office at Los Alamos).

Scan Transfer001.jpg are his orders to proceed from USS Rochester to Sandia Base, Albuquerque New Mexico for "Duty X".

Scan Q001.jpg is when he was given his "Q" Security clearance.

Scan Pass001.jpg he is given permission to visit Juarez, Mexico.  Note the restrictions on his travel.

It appears that Lt. Lindberg may have also acted as a courier for AFSWP and traveled all over the world. Travel records note of Guam, Japan, Puerto Rico, Phillipines, Alaska and many other places.

-  Check of Social Security Death Records lists a Donald S. Lindberg with same birth date as on some of the military records as having died on June 4, 2000 in Virginia

Attachments, scans and photos include:

• Bupers Orders to proceed from USS Rochester to Commanding General, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, NM, July 1948

• Received Q Clearance, August 1948

• Graduation from Nuclear Supervisors Course, June 1949

• Authorization to visit Mexico, October 1950

• Congratulatory letter upon departing Los Alamos and AFSWP, September 1951

• Designation as Navy Courier, December 1949