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Flt Sgt. John James O'Neil Kennedy
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 77 Sqd.
from:Oxford
(d.16th Feb 1944)
John was a bomb aimer on Halifax Bomber LW341. The plane was shot down on a mission to Berlin which left RAF Elvington on 15th February 1944. It crashed into the Baltic Sea, and John's body was never found. One member of the crew was buried on the Danish Island of Keppel. John was a member of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was just 20 when he died. He is commemerated at the Runnymede Memorial on Panel 219.