Kenneth Allen Jeffers
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Photograph of Kenneth Jeffers acquired from Bill Gros, Radio Operator on the B-24 Liberator Eager Beaver and best friend of Jeffers. - Jim Lux
Object Number - UPL 37693 - T/Sgt. Kenneth A. Jeffers, Radio Operator on the B-24 Liberator Hot Stuff, the first heavy bomber in the 8th Air Force to complete 25 missions.
TSgt. Kenneth Allen Jeffers was killed (KIA) on a noncombat mission. After completing their required missions, the crew of, Hot Stuff, B-24D, 41-23728, was tasked with flying General Frank Andrews, commanding general of the USAAF in the ETO, to the U.S. The plane crashed in bad weather, on a mountain top in Iceland, killing everyone on board, but the tail gunner. The crew was to have gone on a war bond tour back in the U.S.
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15066095 / O-789244
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-437644
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: - Hot Stuff
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
New Hartford, NY | 7 June 1920 | Son of Allen and Grace [De Lancett] Jeffers. |
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Enlisted |
Albany, NY | 18 September 1941 | Albany, New York |
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Died |
Mt Fagradalsfjall, Iceland | 3 May 1943 | |
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Buried |
Hillside Cemetery Oriskany Falls, Oneida County, NY | Re-Interred Hillside Cemetery Oriskany Falls, Oneida County, New York | |
| Oneonta, Otsego, NY |
Revisions
Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" for clarity.
Added Kenneth A Jeffers' name to the digital Roll of Honour in the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford, England.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70809382/kenneth-a.-jeffers
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs, Vol 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 114;Ted's Travelling Circus by Carroll Stewart, Chapter 11 'Tragedy in Iceland' pp. 111-118, WWII Memorial web site NARA link
