Zeb KENDALL Jr 

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8 May 1921 

San Fransico  Country

 CALIFORNIA

Parents: Zébédée &  Arabella Frances KENDALL

Siblings : Robert Elli, Abraham Lincoln & Jean

Source : Michel Beckers

 CEMTERY TEMPORARY of  Neuville-En-Condroz Cemetery, Liege, BELGIUM  N°1260

Story of Cemetery Temporary  

ARDENNES AMERICAN CEMETERY and MEMORIAL in Belgium at Neupré

Map of the cemetery of Ardennes

Lieutenant KENDALL was born on May 8, 1921 in San Francisco, California, his parents were from Kansas and Colorado, he had two brothers and a sister.

In 1930, the family lived in Beverly hills near Los Angeles, where he went to school, his father was a miner. In 1940, the family moved to Virginia City in Storey County, Nevada, when his father was president of a mining company. In February 1942, Zeb prepares for the army at Glendale, California and studies at Curtis Wright Technical School, an aircraft maintenance school.

He entered the US Army on 12 June 1942, his record indicated that he had completed a year of university and was an aircraft mechanic, he is selected to take pilot training and at the end of thatthere, he was appointed Lieutenant and after a new formation, he will be assigned to the 418th Bomber Squadron of the 100th Bomber Group Heavy.

The 100th BG is activated on 27 October 1942 at Gowen Field in Idaho County and leaves the United States on 25 May 1943 for England where the group is based at Thorpe Abbotts (Norfolk) it executes its first mission on 25 June 1943 the target, the Uboot submarine construction bases in Bremen, the group’s missions will be concentrated on naval and industrial installations in France and Germany.

The sub-lieutenant was a replacement pilot, he joined the group on 22 February 1944, early March, he had carried out two missions.

On March 6, 1944 the crew of Lt KENDALL is part of a force of 730 Bombers and 800 Fighters (numbers under reserve) it is a first day attack so large scale of the USSAF, their mission, Berlin the BOSCH factories, They are immediately chased by two formations of Folk Wulf 190 and Messerschmitt bf 109 of the Luftwaffe.

The plane of Lt KENDALL disappears from the formation victim of the German fighters. The aircraft crashes near Goss Mimmelage, all the crew is killed.

In total 16 planes will not return on this day.

The Lieutenant will be buried near the crash site and reburied at the American Cemetery Ardennes.

The 100th Group will be nicknamed the 100th Bloody ( the Bloody Hundredth) due to the losses it suffers.

Between 25 June 1943 and 20 April 1945, the group lost 732 dead or missing airmen and 177 aircraft, for a total of 8630 missions

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Equipage.

Lt Zeb KENDALL Jr Pilot

Lt Edwin J LOUGHRAN copilot

Lt William R THORPE navigator

Lt Clifford L GOWEN Gunner

Sgt Melvin A HICKMAN Gunner

Sgt d'état major Lénan E TUTOR opérator radio

Sgt Réginaldo AGUILA Gunner

Sgt d'état major Matthew C AVEN Gunner

Sgt d'état major Raymond L BRIDGES Gunner

Sgt Victor STOFFREGEN Gunner

All these Aviateurs are buried at the American Cemetery of the Ardennes

of Lt LOUGHRAN who is buried in the American Cemetery Netherland Margraten.

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