Kenneth L. Petersen graduated from William Horlick High School in June 1941 and was employed by the Eisendrath Tanning Co.
He arrived overseas on Christmas Day 1944. He was the radio operator on a B-17 that bombed the Tempelhof Train Station.
The aircraft was seen to be hit by flak just after bombs away and a fire started on the wing. Three parachutes were seen to leave the aircraft on the eastern edge of Berlin. At that time the aircraft was still on fire but under control. It also had a runaway prop but managed to fly as far as Texel. It crash landed about 400 m off shore.
The entire crew of nine men was killed.
Note: Only the engineer Sgt Leroy R. Hansen's remains were never found. He is remembered at the Walls of the Missing at American Military Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge. The bodies of all the other crew members washed ashore on Texel or Terschelling. Therefore it can be assumed that the testimony about seeing parachutes leaving the plane over Berlin, concerns another airplane.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/46278-petersen-kenneth-l
He arrived overseas on Christmas Day 1944. He was the radio operator on a B-17 that bombed the Tempelhof Train Station.
The aircraft was seen to be hit by flak just after bombs away and a fire started on the wing. Three parachutes were seen to leave the aircraft on the eastern edge of Berlin. At that time the aircraft was still on fire but under control. It also had a runaway prop but managed to fly as far as Texel. It crash landed about 400 m off shore.
The entire crew of nine men was killed.
Note: Only the engineer Sgt Leroy R. Hansen's remains were never found. He is remembered at the Walls of the Missing at American Military Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge. The bodies of all the other crew members washed ashore on Texel or Terschelling. Therefore it can be assumed that the testimony about seeing parachutes leaving the plane over Berlin, concerns another airplane.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/46278-petersen-kenneth-l
Kenneth L. Petersen graduated from William Horlick High School in June 1941 and was employed by the Eisendrath Tanning Co.
He arrived overseas on Christmas Day 1944. He was the radio operator on a B-17 that bombed the Tempelhof Train Station.
The aircraft was seen to be hit by flak just after bombs away and a fire started on the wing. Three parachutes were seen to leave the aircraft on the eastern edge of Berlin. At that time the aircraft was still on fire but under control. It also had a runaway prop but managed to fly as far as Texel. It crash landed about 400 m off shore.
The entire crew of nine men was killed.
Note: Only the engineer Sgt Leroy R. Hansen's remains were never found. He is remembered at the Walls of the Missing at American Military Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge. The bodies of all the other crew members washed ashore on Texel or Terschelling. Therefore it can be assumed that the testimony about seeing parachutes leaving the plane over Berlin, concerns another airplane.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/46278-petersen-kenneth-l
He arrived overseas on Christmas Day 1944. He was the radio operator on a B-17 that bombed the Tempelhof Train Station.
The aircraft was seen to be hit by flak just after bombs away and a fire started on the wing. Three parachutes were seen to leave the aircraft on the eastern edge of Berlin. At that time the aircraft was still on fire but under control. It also had a runaway prop but managed to fly as far as Texel. It crash landed about 400 m off shore.
The entire crew of nine men was killed.
Note: Only the engineer Sgt Leroy R. Hansen's remains were never found. He is remembered at the Walls of the Missing at American Military Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge. The bodies of all the other crew members washed ashore on Texel or Terschelling. Therefore it can be assumed that the testimony about seeing parachutes leaving the plane over Berlin, concerns another airplane.
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-p/46278-petersen-kenneth-l
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