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Gerard F. Clapso

Radar Operator in Luke the SpookTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Gerald F. Clapso served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radar operator regularly assigned first to Luke the Spook and later to Big Stink.

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