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SSgt Leo Kort Kornoely Veteran

Birth: 5 May 1924
Missaukee County, Michigan, USA
Death: 11 Apr 1944 (aged 19)
Germany
Monument: Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Show Map GPS-Latitude: 52.216057, Longitude: 0.0557153
Plot: Tablets of the Missing
Memorial ID: 56291460 View Source

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Entered the service from Michigan.

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Henry Kornoely

1881–1939
Frances Maybel Kidder Kornoely

1904–1977

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John H. Kornoelje

1922–1922
Elsie May Kornoelje

1923–1923
Agnes P. Kornoely Prince

1926–1998
Marian K. Kornoely Atwood

1928–2010
Deward Henry Kornoely

1929–2003
Glen Earl Kornoely

1931–1992
Alice M. Kornoely Olson

1933–1974
Ida Ruth Kornoelje

1936–1944
Buddy J. Kornoelje

1937–2013
Virginia M. Kornoely Combs

1938–1972

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SSgt Leo K Kornoely, The morning of April 11, 1944, the crew was told they would be going on their first mission of the war. The target was an aircraft plant for German fighters in Pozen, Poland. This was to be the worse day for the USAAF during the entire WW II theater of operation. The bomber group left with 24 aircraft on this mission and only 3 returned. The 11th of April 1944 was the worse single day loss of the war. In all, over 159 bombers were shot down that day.

During the flight to the target the bomb group was attacked by several fighters that fired rockets at them so the fighters were out of range of their guns. One of the fighters got to close to the group and Leo was credited for shooting it down.

The target at Pozen was covered by clouds so the bomb group could not hit its target, so a secondary target was chosen, a German airfield in Rostock Germany. Upon reaching the target the airfield was bombed and the group then turned to go home.

The lead section which consisted of three planes including Leo's was attacked by four German fighters and their plane was hit starting a fire in the radio compartment that quickly spread to the entire rear of the plane. Leo had tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher but it was a hopeless effort. The pilot gave the order to bail out and four crewmen in the rear of the plane did just that. One of them was rescued, and the other three were presumed dead, Leo among them. Only one of the three bodies were recovered.

The pilot and others in the front of the plane stayed in the plane and crash landed near the Baltic Sea coast in the town of Warnemunde just outside of Mecklenburg Germany. The six crewmen that stayed with the plane were recovered by a fishing boat and turned over to the German Army.

So that is the basic story of Leo Kort Kornoely, a true American hero. He is listed in the WW II Memorial that just opened in Washington, DC. Leo is listed in the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial. There also exists a photograph of his name as it appears on the Tablets of the Missing at that cemetery...

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Marian K. Kornoely Atwood

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