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Francis R. Ormond

Bombardier on Luke the SpookTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Francis R. Ormond served as a flight officer in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the bombardier regularly assigned first to Luke the Spook and later to Big Stink.

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