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Birthdays today : Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was a United States Navy lieutenant. He was killed in action while serving as a land-based patrol bomber pilot in World War II and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. He was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888–1969) and Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995).
Joe Sr. had plans for Joe Jr. to become President. However, Joe Jr. died while participating in a top-secret mission in 1944, and the high expectations of the father then fell upon Joe Jr.'s younger brother John who was later elected President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Jr. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5985733/the-secret-drone-mission-that-killed-joseph-kennedy-jr
Joe Sr. had plans for Joe Jr. to become President. However, Joe Jr. died while participating in a top-secret mission in 1944, and the high expectations of the father then fell upon Joe Jr.'s younger brother John who was later elected President. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Jr. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5985733/the-secret-drone-mission-that-killed-joseph-kennedy-jr
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Thanks for mentioning and honoring Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Jr. who may well have been the better Kennedy son SGT John " Mac " McConnell among the four of them.
Even back in WWII the rich and powerful certainly pulled the strings in the democrat party and Joe Sr. was determined to be a king maker. It was more than ironic that JFK's reign as President was referred to as Camelot.
Kudos to US Navy land-based bomber pilot Joe Jr who was killed in action "while participating in a top-secret mission in 1944."
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT 1stSgt Eugene Harless MSG Brad Sand SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SrA Christopher Wright SGT Robert George SPC (Join to see) Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM PO2 Ed C. TSgt Joe C.
Even back in WWII the rich and powerful certainly pulled the strings in the democrat party and Joe Sr. was determined to be a king maker. It was more than ironic that JFK's reign as President was referred to as Camelot.
Kudos to US Navy land-based bomber pilot Joe Jr who was killed in action "while participating in a top-secret mission in 1944."
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT 1stSgt Eugene Harless MSG Brad Sand SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SrA Christopher Wright SGT Robert George SPC (Join to see) Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM PO2 Ed C. TSgt Joe C.
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As I recall, he had orders to CONUS but volunteered for the mission on which he was killed. I believe it was a skip bomb on a dam, but his plane went down on the way to the target.
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MSG Brad Sand
Capt Seid Waddell
Lt. Kennedy was actually working with Operation Aphrodite and taking B-17 and B-24 bombers that were no longer fit for regular duty and turning them...or at least attempting to...into early versions of cruise missiles. The idea behind the program was too far ahead of the technology of the time and pretty much an epic failure. More allies were killed than Germans the attempts to make it work.
Operation Chastise was a purely RAF operation and did have some limited success...especially because the majority of the casualties down river of the dams, that were taken out, were Allied POWs.
Lt. Kennedy was actually working with Operation Aphrodite and taking B-17 and B-24 bombers that were no longer fit for regular duty and turning them...or at least attempting to...into early versions of cruise missiles. The idea behind the program was too far ahead of the technology of the time and pretty much an epic failure. More allies were killed than Germans the attempts to make it work.
Operation Chastise was a purely RAF operation and did have some limited success...especially because the majority of the casualties down river of the dams, that were taken out, were Allied POWs.
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Capt Seid Waddell
MSG Brad Sand, thank you for the correction. My memory is getting a bit fuzzy these days, but now I remember the drone program.
As I recall, he was to take the drone off and then parachute out so that the plane could be guided into the target by operators in chase planes. Did I remember that part correctly?
As I recall, he was to take the drone off and then parachute out so that the plane could be guided into the target by operators in chase planes. Did I remember that part correctly?
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MSG Brad Sand
Capt Seid Waddell
Yes Sir...well at least as much as we can believe the reports on a secret program? He and his co-pilot were supposed to parachute out but the explosives packed in the plane went off while both men were still on the plane.
Yes Sir...well at least as much as we can believe the reports on a secret program? He and his co-pilot were supposed to parachute out but the explosives packed in the plane went off while both men were still on the plane.
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