Kenneth E Blackburn was the co-pilot of a B-24 called “What's Cookin Doc” and the crew flew almost all of the missions with this B-24 out of Attlebridge with the 466th Bomb Group.

The history for this flight crew did have some exciting moments but they all survived, with only Kenneth Blackburn becoming a prisoner of war along with one other man in an incident that occurred on the 17th mission going into Germany on the 18th of July 1944. They were climbing up to a higher altitude when the wings started to ice up, as a consequence the plane went into a dive and it took both Kenneth and the captain Roy Hurst to pull it out. The navigator Arnold Reberg recalled that it was a real scramble for the bombardier (William Foreman) and himself, because Foreman did not bring his parachute and tail gunner Alexander Nobel said everything was all over the place. Soon the aircraft levelled out, but the bombs were dangling in the racks. At that time Kenneth Blackburn and another man went to check it out. Kenneth was off oxygen and did not realize they were still above 20,000ft when the plane went into a second dive while Kenneth was back with the bombs, so out went the bombs and Kenneth too!

The plane came home minus the bombs and two men. Luckily Kenneth was wearing a parachute and was captured spending the remainder of the war as a POW in Stalag Luft One.