Robert E. Smithson

Ground Crew on the Strange CargoTinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Robert E. Smithson served as a master sergeant in the the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Strange Cargo.

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