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On the road

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Honor Flight DFW profiles Spring-Summer 2013


 

Kenneth was inducted into the Army Air Forces on November 1, 1945 at the age of 20.

He was sent to the south Pacific after basic training. He was based at the sprawling air bases on Guam and again on Saipan. He was assigned to the 19th Air Repair Squadron.

Kenneth’s job was one of being acting 1st Sergeant. His most memorable memories were of accompanying U.S.Airmen who spoke Japanese out in the countryside. There, Japanese speaking military personnel used loudspeakers to try and talk Japanese soldiers still in caves and other hiding places that the war was really over and for them to surrender.

At another time he observed Army Graves Registration Service (AGRS) personnel trying to identify bodies taken from a common grave, most were Japanese.

Kenneth was discharged as a Staff Sergeant on August 1, 1947.     

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