Married Barbara Roquette in 1943.
Below info provided by Member # 48336373 on Sept 5, 2021:
LCDR Kermit Q. Ellis had a distinguished career as a pilot in the United States Navy. In 1945, he was the pilot of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, also known as the A-25 Shrike, a carrier-based dive bomber assigned to the USS Essex. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan for a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft in the East China Sea before it could reach Okinawa. On April 7, Ellis and his crewman Frank Guptill launched from the Essex. After attacking the Yamato's broadside, his plane took a hit in the left wing tank. As the plane burned, the two parachuted out with their life rafts as the plane crashed into the ocean. The next day, they were rescued by the submarine USS Tench. During the battle, the Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk, demonstrating U.S. air supremacy in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and the vulnerability of surface ships without air cover to aerial attack. On June 3, 1954, Ellis lost his life when his AD-6 Skyraider failed to pull out of a dive and crashed in an uninhabited area 5 miles bearing 330 degrees from Armitage Field on one of the China Lake ranges in California.
Below info provided by Member # 48336373 on Sept 5, 2021:
LCDR Kermit Q. Ellis had a distinguished career as a pilot in the United States Navy. In 1945, he was the pilot of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, also known as the A-25 Shrike, a carrier-based dive bomber assigned to the USS Essex. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan for a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft in the East China Sea before it could reach Okinawa. On April 7, Ellis and his crewman Frank Guptill launched from the Essex. After attacking the Yamato's broadside, his plane took a hit in the left wing tank. As the plane burned, the two parachuted out with their life rafts as the plane crashed into the ocean. The next day, they were rescued by the submarine USS Tench. During the battle, the Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk, demonstrating U.S. air supremacy in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and the vulnerability of surface ships without air cover to aerial attack. On June 3, 1954, Ellis lost his life when his AD-6 Skyraider failed to pull out of a dive and crashed in an uninhabited area 5 miles bearing 330 degrees from Armitage Field on one of the China Lake ranges in California.
Married Barbara Roquette in 1943.
Below info provided by Member # 48336373 on Sept 5, 2021:
LCDR Kermit Q. Ellis had a distinguished career as a pilot in the United States Navy. In 1945, he was the pilot of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, also known as the A-25 Shrike, a carrier-based dive bomber assigned to the USS Essex. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan for a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft in the East China Sea before it could reach Okinawa. On April 7, Ellis and his crewman Frank Guptill launched from the Essex. After attacking the Yamato's broadside, his plane took a hit in the left wing tank. As the plane burned, the two parachuted out with their life rafts as the plane crashed into the ocean. The next day, they were rescued by the submarine USS Tench. During the battle, the Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk, demonstrating U.S. air supremacy in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and the vulnerability of surface ships without air cover to aerial attack. On June 3, 1954, Ellis lost his life when his AD-6 Skyraider failed to pull out of a dive and crashed in an uninhabited area 5 miles bearing 330 degrees from Armitage Field on one of the China Lake ranges in California.
Below info provided by Member # 48336373 on Sept 5, 2021:
LCDR Kermit Q. Ellis had a distinguished career as a pilot in the United States Navy. In 1945, he was the pilot of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, also known as the A-25 Shrike, a carrier-based dive bomber assigned to the USS Essex. In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan for a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft in the East China Sea before it could reach Okinawa. On April 7, Ellis and his crewman Frank Guptill launched from the Essex. After attacking the Yamato's broadside, his plane took a hit in the left wing tank. As the plane burned, the two parachuted out with their life rafts as the plane crashed into the ocean. The next day, they were rescued by the submarine USS Tench. During the battle, the Yamato and five other Japanese warships were sunk, demonstrating U.S. air supremacy in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and the vulnerability of surface ships without air cover to aerial attack. On June 3, 1954, Ellis lost his life when his AD-6 Skyraider failed to pull out of a dive and crashed in an uninhabited area 5 miles bearing 330 degrees from Armitage Field on one of the China Lake ranges in California.
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