1Lt. Kent was lost on a mission to bomb shipyards in Europe piloting his B-24 Bomber on 3-31-1943 while serving with the 409th Bomber Squadron of the 93rd Bomber Group, Heavy. He was flying out of Hardwicke, England.
1Lt. Kent was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles K. Kent of Peoria, Illinois, now of Kansas City, Mo., and the husband of the former Miss Helen Green of Bakersfield, California. Lt. Kent is a 1937 graduate of Peoria H.S., and was in the Air Corps before the War, and trained as an aviation cadet in California.
He received the DFC for sinking a German Submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, and did aerial service out of the North Africa in Libya, and shipped off to England.
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Entered the service from Illinois on August 16, 1941.
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Footnote: His wife, Sgt. Helen {Green} Kent, was killed on Mother's Day on May 13, 1945 in an aerial accident in New Guinea. She is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
1Lt. Kent was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles K. Kent of Peoria, Illinois, now of Kansas City, Mo., and the husband of the former Miss Helen Green of Bakersfield, California. Lt. Kent is a 1937 graduate of Peoria H.S., and was in the Air Corps before the War, and trained as an aviation cadet in California.
He received the DFC for sinking a German Submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, and did aerial service out of the North Africa in Libya, and shipped off to England.
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Entered the service from Illinois on August 16, 1941.
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Footnote: His wife, Sgt. Helen {Green} Kent, was killed on Mother's Day on May 13, 1945 in an aerial accident in New Guinea. She is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
1Lt. Kent was lost on a mission to bomb shipyards in Europe piloting his B-24 Bomber on 3-31-1943 while serving with the 409th Bomber Squadron of the 93rd Bomber Group, Heavy. He was flying out of Hardwicke, England.
1Lt. Kent was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles K. Kent of Peoria, Illinois, now of Kansas City, Mo., and the husband of the former Miss Helen Green of Bakersfield, California. Lt. Kent is a 1937 graduate of Peoria H.S., and was in the Air Corps before the War, and trained as an aviation cadet in California.
He received the DFC for sinking a German Submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, and did aerial service out of the North Africa in Libya, and shipped off to England.
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Entered the service from Illinois on August 16, 1941.
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Footnote: His wife, Sgt. Helen {Green} Kent, was killed on Mother's Day on May 13, 1945 in an aerial accident in New Guinea. She is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
1Lt. Kent was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles K. Kent of Peoria, Illinois, now of Kansas City, Mo., and the husband of the former Miss Helen Green of Bakersfield, California. Lt. Kent is a 1937 graduate of Peoria H.S., and was in the Air Corps before the War, and trained as an aviation cadet in California.
He received the DFC for sinking a German Submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, and did aerial service out of the North Africa in Libya, and shipped off to England.
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Entered the service from Illinois on August 16, 1941.
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Footnote: His wife, Sgt. Helen {Green} Kent, was killed on Mother's Day on May 13, 1945 in an aerial accident in New Guinea. She is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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