Leon M. Winslow was born in 1913 in Massachusetts. He resided in Essex County, Massachusetts prior to the war. After finishing college, he worked as a Shipping and Receiving Clerk before enlisting into the Army Air Forces in June 20, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Shipping and receiving clerk and also as Single, without dependents. Leon served as a Staff Sergeant on F-7A (#42-64189), 24th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

Leon was "Killed In Action" when the F-7A he was on crashed, for an undetermined reason, in India during the war. He was originally interred overseas and was later repatriated in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA in a common grave with his crew on March 7, 1950. He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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