"On my 16th mission, May 11th, 1943, my luck almost ran out. Catania, Sicily, was the
target." (Audio Interview, 24:47)
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Jarman G. Kennard |
Jarman Kennard [detail from memoir] | World War II, 1939-1946
Army Air Forces/Corps
98th Bomb Group, 415th Squadron
Egypt; Libya; Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany; Sicily; Italy
First Lieutenant
Yes
Ithaca, NY
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, Jarman Kennard was playing Battleship with a
German sympathizer on the floor of his fraternity house at Cornell University. By the
summer of 1943, Kennard would be a Prisoner of War of the Germans and their Italian
allies. The lone survivor when his plane was shot down over Sicily in May 1943,
Kennard articulately describes the fear and deprivations of a POW, as well as the rare
humorous moments to be had among his generally sympathetic Italian captors.
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