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Leander J. Baur

Radio Operator on Luke the SpookTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Leander J. Baur served as a staff sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radio operator regularly assigned first to Luke the Spook and later to Big Stink.

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