His father was a MIL contractor, maybe it was uniforms -- or whatever that was a cover for (ie. not limbs). Feynman's starring was high on the agenda for the t

His father was a MIL contractor, maybe it was uniforms -- or whatever that was a cover for (ie. not limbs). Feynman's starring was high on the agenda for the then-authorities: he was basically the first (and only?) successful physicist "born and bred" in the USA, not being a self-proclaiming (or immigrant) Jew.