Ken hit Omaha Beach, Dog Green First Wave as a Sergeant with A Company, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. He made it off the beach with some of the Bedford Boys, but was killed on 25 June.
-Submitted by Allen D. Jackson, USAF (Ret)
- Rank: Sergeant
- Date of death: 25 June 1944
- County: Washington
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Division/Assignment: 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
- Theater: Europe
- Conflict: World War II
- Battles: Normandy Campaign
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XIX, Middle Panel
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