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Philip M. Barnes

Assistant weaponeer on BockscarNagasaki Mission

Los Alamos, NMTinian IslandWendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission
Bockscar Airplane

Philip M. Barnes served as a lieutenant in the 1st Ordnance Squadron. He was the assistant weaponeer on Bockscar during the Nagasaki bombing mission.

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