Shot down by 20mm cannon fire from fighers and crashed near Fulda, GR on the return from a mission to Gotha, GR on 24 Feb 1944 in B-24J #42-100312. Killed in Action (KIA). 

AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH

 

 

From Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency 

On September 21, 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Second Lieutenant Kenyon Brindley, missing from World War II.

Second Lieutenant Kenyon Brindley entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Arkansas and served in the 703rd Bombardment Squadron, 403rd Bombardment Group. On February 24, 1944, he was the bombardier aboard a B-24J Liberator (serial number 42-100312) which took off from its airbase in England, for a bombing mission against enemy targets near Gotha, Germany. During the mission, this aircraft sustained damage from an enemy fighter attack and exploded in mid-air near Bad Salzungen, Germany. Two crew members survived the attack, but the rest, including 2nd Lt Brindley, were lost in the explosion, and post-war search efforts to find his remains were unsuccessful. In March 1952, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) took custody of commingled unidentified remains from Bad Salzungen Cemetery. Among them were remains belonging to several crewmembers from a bomber crash between Bad Salzungen and Leimbach-Kaiseroda. However, there was not enough evidence to warrant an individual or group identification, and they were ultimately interred in the Ardennes American Cemetery. In June 2021 these remains were disinterred and transferred to a DPAA Laboratory for further study. The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established one set of these remains as those of 2nd Lt Brindley.

 

Second Lieutenant Brindley is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Hombourg, Belgium.