Jarman G. Kennard
Kennard
Jarman G.
NY
World War, 1939-1945
Army Air Forces/Corps
415th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group
First Lieutenant
Egypt; Libya; Stalag Luft I, Germany; Sicily; Italy
Yes
Veteran
"On my 16th mission, May 11th, 1943, my luck almost ran out. Catania, Sicily, was the
target." (Audio Interview, 24:47)
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.
Jarman Kennard [detail from memoir]
The War
Kennard, Jarman. Memoirs, "My War."
My War
Kennard, Jarman. Telegram from Adjutant General to Mr. Earle H. Kennard, reporting Jarman MIA [May 21, 1943]
Telegram to Mr. Earle H. Kennard [May 21, 1943]
Kennard, Jarman. Telegram from adjutant general reporting Jarman a POW of the Italian government [June 4, 1943]
Telegram from adjutant general [June 4, 1943]
Being shot down over Catania, Sicily, in 1943.
Life as a POW of the Italians.
Escaping from his German captors during the American invasion of Sicily.
Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02215/
DLC-AFC
2023-06-02
loc.natlib.afc2001001.02215