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Harold E. Knisley

Aircraft MechanicTinian Island

Wendover, UT
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
A group photo of the 393rd Bomb Squadron's Engineering & Armament Departments. Knisley is pictured fourth row from the top and fourth from the left

Harold Knisley served as a private first class in the 393rd Bomb Squadron in the 509th Composite Group as an aircraft mechanic. He was assigned to the engineering and armament department and served in the unit at both Wendover, Utah and Tinian Island in the Pacific. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Straight Flush.

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