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in six operational flights the targets including Cologne, Neuss, Oberhausen, Hamm and Merseberg all in Germany.

F/O Kennedy was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber engaged on the night of the 12/13th December 1944 in an attack on Witten in Germany. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all the crew including F/O Kennedy were classified as missing. Later information was received from a German source through the International Red Cross Committee that one of the members of the crew had lost his life. In due course the death of F/O Kennedy was officially presumed to have occurred on the 12th December 1944.

A post war casualty search revealed that the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed near Kempden, all the crew including F/O Kennedy losing their lives. They were all buried in a communal grave at the Military Cemetery, Kempden, and at a later date their bodies were concentrated to the Reichswald Forest British Military Cemetery, Germany.

5/2/10506 A.S.2.
1170 hours as Pilot.

Mrs. M. Kennedy (M) (right aligned)
Ionaa Road (right aligned)
Havelock North (right aligned)