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Thomas Karnes

Group AdjutantWendover, UT

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
Wendover Airfield in Utah

Thomas was a group adjutant with the 509th Composite Group at their headquarters in Wendover, Utah and Tinian Island in the Pacific. 

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