History: James Patrick Cooney

["Michael P. Grissom" <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

The following old obituary concerns an important US Army Medical
Officer associated with the U.S. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Occupation 
Forces very soon after the atomic bombings at the end of WW II:

>San Francisco Examiner/7-10-93
>
>COONEY, James Patrick, 90,
>a retired major general who was one of the Army's top authorities
>on radiology and the medical effects of atomic explosions; Tuesday
>at Wesley Woods Health Center in Atlanta.  After World War II, Gen.
>Cooney served as medical director of a special mission to Japan to
>study the effects of the atomic bomb on the survivors of Hiroshima
>and Nagasaki.


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Michael P. Grissom
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