U.S. Army Air Forces · United States 
Technical Sergeant Leonard W Jerome Jr. served in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Leonard served in World War II. Leonard was 22 years old.
Leonard W. Jerome, Jr. graduated from South Park High School in 1941. He was employed at the Curtiss-Wright airplane plant. | | He enlisted in Buffalo, New York, on 5 December 1942. | | The plane was hit by flak about one minute after releasing its bombs. Although all the controls were damaged, the pilot managed to fly the aircraft westward toward the coast of France, where three crew members parachuted from the damaged bomber over Dieppe. They all drowned. The remaining crew managed to get the aircraft back to England, where they bailed out about 15 miles inland. The aircraft itself remained airborne and flew to Wingene, Belgium, where it made a belly landing.
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