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Commemoration After being pronounced missing in action on December 29, 1945, Leon and the rest of his crew were pronounced dead on December 30, 1945 and their remains unable to be retrieved. They crashed in the Adriatic Ocean just off of the coast of Italy on the way to a combat mission in Brenner R.R. Loop, Italy. Leon was awarded the Air Medal and the Purple Heart, and was memorialized along with the rest of his crew on the Tablets of the Missing in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery. |