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Leon Gates Jr 1934 - 2002

Leon Gates Jr of Parker, Douglas County, CO was born on November 22, 1934, and died at age 67 years old on September 8, 2002. Leon Gates was buried at Ft. Logan National Cemetery Section 21 Site 254 4400 West Kenyon Avenue, in Denver.
Leon Gates Jr
Parker, Douglas County, CO 80134
November 22, 1934
September 8, 2002
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  • 11/22
    1934

    Birthday

    November 22, 1934
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Air Force Rank attained: CMSGT Wars/Conflicts: Korea, Vietnam
  • 09/8
    2002

    Death

    September 8, 2002
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Death location
  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Ft. Logan National Cemetery Section 21 Site 254 4400 West Kenyon Avenue, in Denver, Co 80236
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In 1934, in the year that Leon Gates Jr was born, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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In 1942, at the age of only 8 years old, Leon was alive when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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