Airplane Crash - Blythburgh, England 08/12/1944
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Blythburgh, England
| Date | 08/12/1944 |
| Time | 18:20 |
| Location | Blythburgh, England |
| Operator | Military - U.S. Navy |
| Flight # | - |
| Type | Consolidated PB4Y-1 |
| Registration | 32271 |
| Aboard | 2 |
| Fatalities | 2 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | Navy lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 29, brother of President John F. Kennedy, was killed while on a flying mission over England during World War II. Kennedy volunteered for operation Aphrodite after completing two full combat tours and was killed when the explosive-laden PB4Y he was flying blew up in air. He was intending to aim the ship and bail out, leaving another aircraft to guide the PB4Y via remote control to a German submarine pen on the French coast; it apparently exploded when he armed the switches. The photographichase plane had President Franklin Roosevelt's son, Elliot Roosevelt, on board. |
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