Assigned to 709BS, 447BG, 8AF USAAF. Crew chief of B-17 'Scheherazade'.



"No 6 is Master Sergeant Kenneth J. Johnson, 25, from Dane, Wisconsin, His Fort "Scheherazade" leads the sextet by virtue of having completed one hundred fifteen combat missions to Eighth Air Force targets in Germany and previously occupied Continental Europe. The plane has flown 1280 hours, has had 23 engine changes, has sustained major battle damage ten times and minor battle damage nine times. It has only had six returns from bombing its target without dropping bombs and none of these was because of mechanical failure. It has dropped 310 tons of bombs on Hitler's Europe. The plane originally was assigned to the group in the United States and has added the hazard of flying the Atlantic to its credit. The plane is still flying and should soon have the eighth Air Force record for Flying Fortresses."



'Scheherazade', under Johnson tender care, went on to complete 126 missions and return to the USA.



Awards: BSM, WWII Victory, EAME.