Official Military Personnel File for Jacob Beser.

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Official Military Personnel File for Jacob Beser.

1941-1958

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/100334548

This Official Military Personnel File includes records from the following folders: Service Documents (July 22, 1941-March 27, 1958); Field File/Jacket or Record Book (June 6, 1942-September 2, 1942); Awards, Decorations, and Commendations (August 17, 1945-September 22, 1945); Efficiency/Fitness Reports (December 31, 1944-January 12, 1946); Medical Records (September 20, 1943-February 26, 1947).

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National Archives at St. Louis

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SNAC Resource ID: 11625419

National Archives at St. Louis

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Beser, Jacob, 1921 - 1992

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Jacob Beser (May 15, 1921 – June 16, 1992) was a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces who served during World War II. Beser was the radar specialist aboard the Enola Gay on August 6, 1945, when it dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, Beser was a crewmember aboard Bockscar when the Fat Man bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. He was the only person to have served as a strike crew member of both of the 1945 atomic bomb missions. ...