Pacific Wrecks - Kenneth D. Kirschner during advanced flight training class 43-D with P-38 Lightning at Williams Field

Missing In Action (MIA)

Prisoners Of War (POW)

Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)

Chronology

Kenneth D. Kirschner during advanced flight training class 43-D with P-38 Lightning at Williams Field
On September 24, 1943 pilot P-38H Lightning 42-66580 shot down over Finschafen and became a Prisoner Of War (POW). On March 4, 1944 or March 5, 1944 executed at Tanoura at the edge of Talili Bay during the Tunnel Hill Massacre" or "Tunnel Hill Incident".
Credit: USAAF Date: April 1943
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