Second Lieutenant, 741st Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Forces, World War II.
Bombardier aboard B-24H Liberator #42-64456.
He was shot down on a bombing mission over Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, during World War II.
The aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft artillery flak and banked over and collided with
B-24H #41-29290 and both aircraft plummeted to earth.
Of the ten-man crew, only Lieutenant Laws was able to parachute, but he was shot by Axis forces on the ground.
The crew KIA were:
1st Lt. Jerome E Slater, Pilot
1st Lt. Douglas S Rezin, Co-pilot
2nd Lt. Kels Laws, Bombardier
2nd Lt. Emil J Sobylak, Navigator
T/Sgt. Olin O Chrisawn, Flight Engineer/Gunner
S/Sgt. Grover C Barron Jr, Gunner
S/Sgt. Selmer Lewis Brathall, Flight Engineer/Gunner
S/Sgt. Warren G Heer, Gunner
T/Sgt. John R Harber, Radio Operator/Gunner
S/Sgt. Louie B Von Achen Jr, Gunner
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U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): O-1703136
Enlistment Date: 12/17/1941 under Service No. #16042951
Entered the Service from: Tennessee
741st Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Kels Laws is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Claiborne County, Tennessee.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mr. Cawood Laws (Brother)
501 Winchester Street
Monroe, Michigan
Second Lieutenant, 741st Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Forces, World War II.
Bombardier aboard B-24H Liberator #42-64456.
He was shot down on a bombing mission over Porto Santo Stefano, Italy, during World War II.
The aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft artillery flak and banked over and collided with
B-24H #41-29290 and both aircraft plummeted to earth.
Of the ten-man crew, only Lieutenant Laws was able to parachute, but he was shot by Axis forces on the ground.
The crew KIA were:
1st Lt. Jerome E Slater, Pilot
1st Lt. Douglas S Rezin, Co-pilot
2nd Lt. Kels Laws, Bombardier
2nd Lt. Emil J Sobylak, Navigator
T/Sgt. Olin O Chrisawn, Flight Engineer/Gunner
S/Sgt. Grover C Barron Jr, Gunner
S/Sgt. Selmer Lewis Brathall, Flight Engineer/Gunner
S/Sgt. Warren G Heer, Gunner
T/Sgt. John R Harber, Radio Operator/Gunner
S/Sgt. Louie B Von Achen Jr, Gunner
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U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): O-1703136
Enlistment Date: 12/17/1941 under Service No. #16042951
Entered the Service from: Tennessee
741st Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Kels Laws is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Claiborne County, Tennessee.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mr. Cawood Laws (Brother)
501 Winchester Street
Monroe, Michigan
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