Kenneth Seebold Kenyon, the son of Frederick and Alice Seebold Kenyon, was born December 19, 1917 in Glendale, California, USA. He moved with his parents to El Centro, California, in 1919 where they were the owner operators of Kenyon's Desert Plunge (swimming pool). After the death of his father in 1937 he helped his mother run the business until joining the army in 1942.
Kenneth died near Diest, Belgium, July 20, 1944, when his parachute failed to open after he bailed out of the fatally crippled B24H Liberator bomber of which he was the left waist gunner (some reports say he was the nose gunner on this mission). The other eight members of his bomber crew all parachuted safely. It was reported in U.S. Army Air Forces Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs) that his body was recovered by German soldiers and then passed to local Belgian citizens who buried him in the Webbekom Cemetery. Sometime after the war his remains were repatriated and he is now entombed with his parents in the Cypress View Mausoleum in San Diego.
Information from U.S. Army Air Forces
Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs)
Kenneth Seebold Kenyon
U.S. Army Air Corp
Rank: S/Sargeant
Military serial number: 19094031
Date of death: 20 July 1944
Casualty report number: KU2520
Place: near Diest, Belgium
Burial: community cemetery Webbekom, Belgium (grave # 8)
Organization and Mission:
8th Air Force
458th Bomb Group
752nd Bomb Squadron
B-24H Liberator Bomber
Serial Number: 42-95117
Plane Name: "You Can't Take it With You"
Crew name: Monahan Crew (after pilot)
Pilot: MONAHAN, JAMES L, 1LT, 0138565
Date of mission: 20 July 1944
Time of take off: 0700 (7:00 am)
Mission: Heavy bomb
Target: Erfurt, Germany
Damage to plane: Number 1 engine exploded
Location when plane left formation: over Frankfurt, Germany
Kenneth died near Diest, Belgium, July 20, 1944, when his parachute failed to open after he bailed out of the fatally crippled B24H Liberator bomber of which he was the left waist gunner (some reports say he was the nose gunner on this mission). The other eight members of his bomber crew all parachuted safely. It was reported in U.S. Army Air Forces Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs) that his body was recovered by German soldiers and then passed to local Belgian citizens who buried him in the Webbekom Cemetery. Sometime after the war his remains were repatriated and he is now entombed with his parents in the Cypress View Mausoleum in San Diego.
Information from U.S. Army Air Forces
Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs)
Kenneth Seebold Kenyon
U.S. Army Air Corp
Rank: S/Sargeant
Military serial number: 19094031
Date of death: 20 July 1944
Casualty report number: KU2520
Place: near Diest, Belgium
Burial: community cemetery Webbekom, Belgium (grave # 8)
Organization and Mission:
8th Air Force
458th Bomb Group
752nd Bomb Squadron
B-24H Liberator Bomber
Serial Number: 42-95117
Plane Name: "You Can't Take it With You"
Crew name: Monahan Crew (after pilot)
Pilot: MONAHAN, JAMES L, 1LT, 0138565
Date of mission: 20 July 1944
Time of take off: 0700 (7:00 am)
Mission: Heavy bomb
Target: Erfurt, Germany
Damage to plane: Number 1 engine exploded
Location when plane left formation: over Frankfurt, Germany
Kenneth Seebold Kenyon, the son of Frederick and Alice Seebold Kenyon, was born December 19, 1917 in Glendale, California, USA. He moved with his parents to El Centro, California, in 1919 where they were the owner operators of Kenyon's Desert Plunge (swimming pool). After the death of his father in 1937 he helped his mother run the business until joining the army in 1942.
Kenneth died near Diest, Belgium, July 20, 1944, when his parachute failed to open after he bailed out of the fatally crippled B24H Liberator bomber of which he was the left waist gunner (some reports say he was the nose gunner on this mission). The other eight members of his bomber crew all parachuted safely. It was reported in U.S. Army Air Forces Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs) that his body was recovered by German soldiers and then passed to local Belgian citizens who buried him in the Webbekom Cemetery. Sometime after the war his remains were repatriated and he is now entombed with his parents in the Cypress View Mausoleum in San Diego.
Information from U.S. Army Air Forces
Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs)
Kenneth Seebold Kenyon
U.S. Army Air Corp
Rank: S/Sargeant
Military serial number: 19094031
Date of death: 20 July 1944
Casualty report number: KU2520
Place: near Diest, Belgium
Burial: community cemetery Webbekom, Belgium (grave # 8)
Organization and Mission:
8th Air Force
458th Bomb Group
752nd Bomb Squadron
B-24H Liberator Bomber
Serial Number: 42-95117
Plane Name: "You Can't Take it With You"
Crew name: Monahan Crew (after pilot)
Pilot: MONAHAN, JAMES L, 1LT, 0138565
Date of mission: 20 July 1944
Time of take off: 0700 (7:00 am)
Mission: Heavy bomb
Target: Erfurt, Germany
Damage to plane: Number 1 engine exploded
Location when plane left formation: over Frankfurt, Germany
Kenneth died near Diest, Belgium, July 20, 1944, when his parachute failed to open after he bailed out of the fatally crippled B24H Liberator bomber of which he was the left waist gunner (some reports say he was the nose gunner on this mission). The other eight members of his bomber crew all parachuted safely. It was reported in U.S. Army Air Forces Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs) that his body was recovered by German soldiers and then passed to local Belgian citizens who buried him in the Webbekom Cemetery. Sometime after the war his remains were repatriated and he is now entombed with his parents in the Cypress View Mausoleum in San Diego.
Information from U.S. Army Air Forces
Missing Aircrew Reports (MACRs)
Kenneth Seebold Kenyon
U.S. Army Air Corp
Rank: S/Sargeant
Military serial number: 19094031
Date of death: 20 July 1944
Casualty report number: KU2520
Place: near Diest, Belgium
Burial: community cemetery Webbekom, Belgium (grave # 8)
Organization and Mission:
8th Air Force
458th Bomb Group
752nd Bomb Squadron
B-24H Liberator Bomber
Serial Number: 42-95117
Plane Name: "You Can't Take it With You"
Crew name: Monahan Crew (after pilot)
Pilot: MONAHAN, JAMES L, 1LT, 0138565
Date of mission: 20 July 1944
Time of take off: 0700 (7:00 am)
Mission: Heavy bomb
Target: Erfurt, Germany
Damage to plane: Number 1 engine exploded
Location when plane left formation: over Frankfurt, Germany
