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Leonard V Mares USAF (Ret.)

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Leonard V Mares USAF (Ret.)

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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

1937: Graduate, New York University, Aeronautical Engineer.
1942: Pilot, US Air Corps.
1949: Pilot of the last B17G flight over Berlin on 7 April 1949. This was a “weather recon” flown over the Berlin Airlift program. There were 23 B17 flights from Munich to over Berlin and return to Munich (Oberfaffonhofen Air Force Depot).

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