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Theodore M. Slife

Radio Operator on the Full HouseHiroshima Mission

Nagasaki MissionTinian IslandWendover, UT
509th Composite GroupHiroshima MissionManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission
Full House

Theodore M. Slife served as a staff sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radio operator of the B-29 Full House, which served as a weather reconnaissance plane on the Hiroshima bombing mission, and the backup strike plane on Iwo Jima on the Nagasaki mission.

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