Ensign B. C. Kern, USNR, was designated Naval Aviator #12021 in 1942. Entered active service via the Aviation Cadet (AVCAD) program.
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Kern and his crew of five were killed when their Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber aircraft crashed on takeoff at Zandery Field, Dutch Guiana (now Suriname).
Ironically LTJG Kern, and all but one crewman, had survived a night-time ditching at sea on 23 Oct. 1943 off the Dutch Guiana coast.
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Kern and his crew of five were killed when their Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber aircraft crashed on takeoff at Zandery Field, Dutch Guiana (now Suriname).
Ironically LTJG Kern, and all but one crewman, had survived a night-time ditching at sea on 23 Oct. 1943 off the Dutch Guiana coast.
Ensign B. C. Kern, USNR, was designated Naval Aviator #12021 in 1942. Entered active service via the Aviation Cadet (AVCAD) program.
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Kern and his crew of five were killed when their Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber aircraft crashed on takeoff at Zandery Field, Dutch Guiana (now Suriname).
Ironically LTJG Kern, and all but one crewman, had survived a night-time ditching at sea on 23 Oct. 1943 off the Dutch Guiana coast.
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Kern and his crew of five were killed when their Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber aircraft crashed on takeoff at Zandery Field, Dutch Guiana (now Suriname).
Ironically LTJG Kern, and all but one crewman, had survived a night-time ditching at sea on 23 Oct. 1943 off the Dutch Guiana coast.
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Re-interment in 1948.
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