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Enlisted on his 18th birthday.
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Tunisia, Africa is where Bernerd was first shipped to. He completed 38 missions in Africa, Northern Italy, Albania, Yugoslavia and Romania.
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Spent two years on a base in Battaglia, Italy and his bomb group did about 300 sorties from there.
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Joined B-29 group in Pueblo, Colorado.
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Bernerd was a flying a mission on the B-29 when the first atomic bomb was exploded in history over the New Mexico dessert called Trinity. Flew 6 missions on the B-29.
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After the war he worked at Atomic Energy for 35 years separating Uranium under gaseous diffusion.
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