Kenneth Kessenger
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 42-52610 'The Madam. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
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Wallace Louis Tyner
Military
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2LT Wallace Louis Tyner Co-Pilot Crew #616 - Kenneth Kessenger Crew 466th BG - 786th BS
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MACR 3847 42-52610 "The Madame" 466th BG | 786th BS 08 Apr 1944
Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #42-52610 'The Madam', Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Service
People
Units served with
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466th Bomb Group
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the... -
786th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-52610 The Madame
B-24 Liberator
Mission 291 350 B-24s are dispatched to aviation industry targets in Brunswick. 1944-04-08 - MACR #: 3847 Notes: 52610 (466th BG) lost Apr 8, 1944, Germany. MACR 3847
Associated Place
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Attlebridge
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy... -
Stalag Luft I
Other location
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Shawnee, OK, USA | 2 February 1917 |
| Graduated | Lawrence, KS, USA | May 1936 |
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Haskell Indian Nations University |
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| Lived in | Laguna, NM 87038, USA | 1942 |
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Box 25 |
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| Shot Down/Captured | Brunswick, Germany | 8 April 1942 |
| POW | Barth, Germany | 8 April 1942 – 30 May 1945 |
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Stalag Luft I |
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| Died | Clinton, KS 66047, USA | 4 October 2000 |
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Lifelong Shawnee resident Wallace Louis Tyner died Wednesday in Clinton. He was 83. Tyner was born Feb. 2, 1917, in Shawnee, the son of Davis and Sally (Hood) Tyner. He graduated from Shawnee High School in 1934, and from Haskell Junior College in Kansas in 1936. A prisoner of war in Germany for 13 months, Tyner served with the Air Corps during World War II. Before retiring, he lived in Lashkargah, Afghanistan for three years. Tyner retired from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation after 37 years of service. He later worked for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, and served on the tribal constitution committee. He was a member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, and active in the elders group. Tyner also participated in the Elks, AARP, and the Oklahoma chapter of POWs. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church of Shawnee, and was a church elder. |
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| Buried | Tecumseh, OK, USA | 7 October 2000 |
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Tecumseh Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 19 April 2020 21:05:06 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 31 January 2019 20:06:36 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename |
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https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/15359120/person/3820189... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 08 July 2016 20:59:49 | 466thHistorian | Changes to service number, events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and media associations |
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tyner&GSfn=Wallace... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:43 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3847 |
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