Kenneth Hanley Betts
Military
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Monty Givens Crew
388th BG - 562nd BS
Shot down and captured 6 March 194
388th Bomb Group collection
Object Number - UPL 37474 - 2LT Kenneth H. Betts Navigator Monty Givens Crew 388th BG - 562nd BS Shot down and captured 6 March 194
Shot down in a frontal attack by fighters on the return from a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-31135 'Suzy Sagtitz' crashed near Schoonebekerveld, Holland. Prisoner of War (POW).
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- Date: 11 January 1944
- Date: 4 January 1944
- Date: 24 December 1943
- Date: 22 December 1943
- Date: 20 December 1943
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Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Warren, Pennsylvania, USA | 10 September 1918 | |
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Enlisted |
Pittsburgh, PA | 11 November 1942 | |
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Died |
24 October 2006 | ||
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Buried |
30 November 2006 | Arlington National Cemetery Branch of Service: US ARMY Court: 8 Section: M1 Column: 5 Niche: 4 | |
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Other Shot Down/Captured |
Oud Schoonebekerveld, The Netherlands | 6 March 1944 | The Givens crew were shot down by Fw190's of JG11 just inside the Dutch German border while returning from Berlin. |
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Other POW |
Stalag Luft I | Stalag Luft I Barth, Germany |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3082 / MACR 3082, Obit Washington Post November 26, 2006, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database