Lester J Baer

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media-40981.jpeg UPL 40981 Lester "Cub" J Baer

Wife's Grandfather Lester J Baer

Object Number - UPL 40981

Flew 35 missions Flew 'The Zeus'. Mission: Oldenburg, Germany 30 May 1944. The airfield at Oldenburg was the objective and received a total of over 95 tons of bombs. The flak was intense and accurate causing light damage to six of t

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Units served with

Colonel Larry Thomas of the 453rd Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Larry Thomas 453BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Born

Dubuque, Iowa

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From Grandpa Cub

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, D790.A2S45, 1998, page 199; The Liberator Men of Old Buc, pg 55-56L An Emotional Gauntlet, pg 266-267

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