Lester J Baer
Military
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Lester "Cub" J Baer
Wife's Grandfather Lester J Baer
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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- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
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Dubuque, Iowa |
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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