Kenneth Morgan Tudor, son of Richard William Tudor and Blanche Berdena Boyd Tudor, was born July 11, 1923 in Copper Lake, Wyoming. By 1942 he moved to Mechanicsburg, Illinois and then to 21739 S. Western Avenue Torrance by July, 1944.

While in Illinois, Kenneth Tudor registered for the military on June 29, 1942. He enlisted on August 5, 1943, and was given the rank of Private. He graduated from the AAF Training Command’s Flexible Gunnery School at Buckingham Army Air Field near Fort Myers, Florida as 3rd highest in his class in July, 1944. He also completed the Armament School at Lowry Field, Colorado. He became an aerial gunner on a B-29in the 499th Bomber Squadron, Division 345th Bomber Group. Kenneth Tudor served in Luzon for three years. In February, 1944 he was temporarily discharged for having the measles.

Kenneth Tudor was killed in an air battle during the Luzon campaign in the Philippines on June 6, 1945 at the age of 21. He was survived by his parents and his brother Dana Tudor. He is buried in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Phillippines.

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Researched by Noah Kim