Michael G. Bohon

Radar Operator in the Next ObjectiveTinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Michael G. Bohon served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was the radar operator regularly assigned to the B-29 Next Objective.

Crew A-3, Bohon is in the middle row, second to the left. Photo courtesy of Richard H. Campbell and the Janet Chapman Pence Collection from the Air Force Museum.

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