Kenneth Eugene Russell

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Object Number - UPL 54196 - Russell, Kenneth

Killed In Action. B-24H 42-50345 shot down by flak, crashed in the English Channel off Zuydcoote, France on May 28, 1944 after all crew baled out. ABMC lists DOD as May 29, 1945. (All eight casualties in this crew have a legal death date of May 29, not May 28, and 1945, not 1944.)



Awards: AM, PH.

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Eugene R Hicks

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-811078
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-50345

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).

Sudbury

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Oklahoma, USA 21 February 1921 Son of Willis Vernon and Clara Etta [Pickett] Russell.

Enlisted

Oklahoma City, OK, USA 29 October 1940 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Died

Off Zuydcoote, France 28 May 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Lutzendorf hit by flak in #3 engine near IP not able to keep up with formation abandoned over channel. KIA MACR 5389

Based

Killed in Action (KIA)

Sudbury 28 May 1944 Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial Tablets of the Missing Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial

Revisions

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13819802/kenneth-eugene-russell

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Family history - he was very tall, but they called him Shorty.

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https://www.fold3.com/image/28651156
https://www.fold3.com/record/529863639-kenneth-e-russell
https://www.fold3.com/image/310952942?terms=Kenneth%20E%20Russell
https://www.fold3.com/record/84723910-kenneth-e-russell
Mission 376: Battle Over the Reich, May 28, 1944 By Ivo de Jong
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13819802/kenneth-eugene-russell

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'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces. Volume 3. ETO Area - April 1944 - June 1944'. Bishop, Stan D & Hey, John A. Bishop Book Productions. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9547685-3-9

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ABMC http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5389 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Object number: UPL 54196 - Russell, Kenneth