Personal File · Airman

John L. Keever.

Radio Operator · 409th Squadron

John L. Keever

The Man Behind the Name

§ Biography

Radio operator on Hollis Hunt's crew. They trained at Tonopah, Nevada, joined the 93rd on 6 August 1944, flew four missions with the 409th, then moved to the 329th as a lead crew and finished thirty missions, the last on 8 April 1945. After the first four, ball turret gunner Worsdel K. Pearson was sent to Italy and Charles Flint came on as radar bombardier.

Service record.

§ As Catalogued
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Position
Radio Operator

Missions flown.

8 catalogued · 25 Mar 1945 — 12 Sep 1944

The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.

In the journals.

1 piece

Articles, columns, and letters naming this airman in the 2nd Air Division Association journals and the group’s own newsletters. The summaries below are ours; the pieces themselves belong to the writers and publications that produced them.

Letter

Hunt crew — 409th then 329th lead, 30 missions

By John Keever
2nd Air Division Association Journal — Winter 1988 · Vol. 27, No. 4 · p. 34

The Hunt crew joined the 93rd in August 1944, flew four missions with the 409th, then moved to the 329th as a lead crew and finished thirty.

Read the records.

1 document

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Supports 5 facts

2nd Air Division Association Journal — Winter 1988

Periodical · 2nd Air Division Association · Vol. 27, No. 4 · 1988 · Second Air Division Journal
Cited at p. 34

Sources.

§ Provenance
3fd2f476-e9d2-4693-aa97-d50416ba1d4b,Roster List
Official record