Kenneth W Langenmayr
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Oscar A. Weeklund Crew
466th BG - 786th BS
Standing Left to Right: Francis P. LeBlanc (R/O). Oscar A. Weeklund (P), Kenneth W. Langenmayer (CP), Elijah L. Cockrill (N), Kenneth B. Brookshier (FE)
Kneeling Left to Right: William C. Wixted (TTG), Woodrow J. Schmidt (BTG), Earl L. Belleville (NG), Maurice T. Verges (TG)
Inset: David R. Fitzgibbons (B)
This crew was shot down on 25 June 1944, their 20th mission. Weeklund, Langenmayer, Cockrill, Brookshier, Belleville and Verges were all KIA.
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Object Number - UPL 7546 - Crew #627 Oscar A. Weeklund Crew 466th BG - 786th BS Standing Left to Right: Francis P. LeBlanc (R/O). Oscar A. Weeklund (P), Kenneth W....
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by flak and crashed near Britaigny in B-24 'Crippled Bitch' #4129371
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-690016
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Crippled Bitch
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 25 June 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
Brétigny-sur-Orge, France | 25 June 1944 | |
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Born |
Riley, Maine, USA | ||
| East Syracuse, NY, USA | |||
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Enlisted |
Minoa, NY, USA | Body of Lt. Langenmayr To Arrive in City Tonight The body of 2nd Lt. Kenneth W. Langenmayr, 23, of Cicero, bomber pilot who was killed in action over France in June 1944, will arrive home tonight. Funeral services will be conducted at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the home of his mother, Mrs. Cecilia Langenmayr, Thompson and Hamilton rds., Cicero, and at 9:30 a.m. in Sacred Herat Church, Cicero. Military rites will be conducted by members of the James Spires Post, American Legion. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Minoa. Friends may call tomorrow and Friday afternoon and evening. Lt. Langemayr was a graduate of North Syracuse High School where he was active in track and in music. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of Sacred Heart Church and an altar boy. Before entering service he was a brakeman on the New York Central Railroad. He entered service Jan. 6, 1943, receiving preflight training at Nashville, Tenn.; Clarksdale, Miss., and at New Port, Ark. He went to England in April, 1944, and participated in 28 missions over enemy territory before being reported missing in action after a flight on June 25, 1944. Surviving, besides his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Mary Rose Brisson Langenmayr; a son, Kenneth, and a daughter, Ann Cecilia; two brothers, Carl and Donald Langenmayr and a sister, Mrs. John Carroll. (Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, NY, Wednesday, October 27, 1948, p. 18, Col. 4-5) Saint Marys Cemetery Minoa Onondaga County New York, USA |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 6723 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
