Kenneth P Dunaway Jr
Military
National Archives
Object Number - UPL 74904 - Escape and Evasion File for Kenneth Dunaway Page 9
Crashed near Brussels on 1 Sep 44 in P-47 #42-22776, Prisoner of War (POW).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
Events
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Other Contact with Daughter of Lt. Boteler |
16 March 2011 - 16 March 2011 | Lt. Boteler’s daughter, Cynthia contacted me after finding my website and inquired about her father. I was able to give her Lt. Dunaway’s Missing Air Crew Report (MACR 8546) so she could read her father’s witness statement. As I always do when contacted I checked to see if I could locate any other information about the MACR. I found a posting on the warbird information exchange from someone who had been looking for Lt. Dunaway and someone had replied with contact information. I forwarded this information to Cynthia in hopes she might be able to make contact. Here is her reply:Dear Curt, I thought you would be interested to know that Kenneth Dunaway is alive at 93 and living in Kansas City. I spoke to him on the phone for about an hour last Thursday. He was pleased to receive the call and was happy to know who the pilot was who told him to go up and gain altitude. My father was the last person he heard from before he bailed. In any event, Lt. Dunaway is excited as his daughter reported, “He has told us the story so many times, and always ended with the fact he never knew who told him to get altitude.” Cynthia | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
1 September 1944 |
Revisions
Copied "S/N" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so one dup person can be deleted.
Copied "Summary biography" from a Duplicate person as part of a merge operation of dup people so one dup person can be deleted.
Corrected the name by moving "Jr" from the surname field to the suffix field and moving the last name from the middle name field to the surname field.
MACR 8546 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
