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Leon Lester Kantor 1916 - 2010

Leon Lester Kantor of Laguna Hills, Orange County, CA was born on November 9, 1916, and died at age 93 years old on January 9, 2010. Leon Kantor was buried at Riverside National Cemetery Section 58A Site 804 22495 Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside.
Leon Lester Kantor
Laguna Hills, Orange County, CA 92637
November 9, 1916
January 9, 2010
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  • 11/9
    1916

    Birthday

    November 9, 1916
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Air Forces Rank attained: SSGT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 01/9
    2010

    Death

    January 9, 2010
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    Riverside National Cemetery Section 58A Site 804 22495 Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside, Ca 92518
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In 1916, in the year that Leon Lester Kantor was born, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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In 1943, when he was 27 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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