Kenneth F Gibbs
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 39558 - "A crew of the 379th Bomb Group poses beside a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Peter Wabbit" at an 8th Air Force base in England, 24 July 1943."
Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 18 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Schweinfurt raid in B-17 42-29830 'Peter Wabbit' 17-Aug-43. Shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed Dorrebach, 6 miles W of Bingen, Germany Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 1350
Award: AM (2 OLC), PH.
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
17 November 1921 | Son of Howard E and Mary Irene Gibbs. | |
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Enlisted |
7 February 1942 | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | |
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Died Killed in Action (KIA) |
17 August 1943 | ||
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Buried |
18 August 1943 | Interred | |
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Based |
17 August 1943 | ||
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Buried |
Re-Interred Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Plot E, Row 32, Grave 23 |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56655408/kenneth-f_-gibbs
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1350 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database