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Leon Haim Leigh 1920 - 2002

Leon Haim Leigh of Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa County, FL was born on October 1, 1920, and died at age 82 years old on October 24, 2002. Leon Leigh was buried at Barrancas National Cemetery Section 40 Site 1439 Naval Air Station, 1 Cemetery Road, in Pensacola.

Leon Haim Leigh
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Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa County, FL 32547
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    Branch of service: Us Air Force Rank attained: MAJ Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii, Korea, Vietnam
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In 1920, in the year that Leon Haim Leigh was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1942, Leon was 22 years old 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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Leigh, Virginia (Dec 10, 1927 - Sep 29, 2005) Leigh, Deborah (Sep 12, 1959 - Nov 17, 2005) Leigh, Georgia (Mar 12, 1931 - Sep 1968) Leigh, Rosemary (Jan 23, 1948 - Jul 2, 2011) Leigh, Laura (Jan 9, 1919 - Aug 8, 2002) Leigh, Robert (Apr 15, 1918 - Jun 29, 2005) Leigh, Don (Apr 5, 1921 - Feb 2, 2002) Leigh, Rolland (Jun 6, 1943 - Sep 12, 1996) Leigh, Lester (Jun 12, 1952 - Aug 3, 1997) Leigh, Ernest (Jul 16, 1885 - Jan 1963)
Leigh, Georgia (Nov 25, 1902 - Jul 1974) Leigh, Raymond (Jan 24, 1898 - Mar 1964) Leigh, Leonard (May 12, 1890 - Apr 1974) Leigh, William (Jun 3, 1898 - Jun 1978) Leigh, Susan (May 6, 1915 - Dec 1, 2001) Leigh, Jane (Aug 6, 1932 - Mar 1978) Leigh, Samuel (Jan 9, 1974 - Oct 29, 2009) Leigh, Debra (Mar 27, 1958 - Nov 29, 1999) Leigh, James (Oct 24, 1917 - May 17, 1999) Leigh, Joseph (Sep 12, 1915 - Apr 5, 2000)
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