Quentin; 50 Combat Missions as an Engineer/Aerial Gunner in the B-25 Bomber in the MTO.

During WWII, S/Sgt. Quentin B Kemp served with the B-25 Mitchell Medium Bomber 321st Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Squadron in the Mediterranean Theatre. Quentin completed 50 Combat Missions and returned to the States, was in re-training when he died in a tragic boating accident, boat turned over and he drowned.

Quentin was a STAFF SERGEANT and returned to Columbia, S.C. and began Cadet-Pilot Training at Columbia AAB..

Quentin B Kemp Birth: 1919 Death: 1944

Family: Parents; Archie B Kemp (1890 - 1984) Anna M Kemp (1891 - 1970)

Burial: Willow Island Baptist Church Cemetery
Willow Island, Pleasants County, West Virginia, USA

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58172451&rand=333

World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946

Quentin B. Kemp; Service Number 35379648

WW II Memorial Honoree Hometown Service Source
Quentin B. Kemp Wood County, WV   U.S. Army National Archives
S/SG Quentin B. Kemp ID: 35379648 Branch of Service: U.S. Army
Hometown: Wood County, WV     Status: DNB
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War: WW II
Name: Quentin B. Kemp   Sex: Male   Race: White   County: Wood
Branch of Service: Army   Rank: Sgt.   Service Number: 35379648
Date of Death: 1944/08/13 Place of Death: Florence, South Carolina
Cause of Death: DNB    Place of Burial: Willow Island Baptist Cemetery, Pleasants County, WV   Date of Birth: 1919   Father: Archie B Kemp
Mother: Hanna (ANNA)

Clarksburg Exponent Newspaper Death Notice-16 August 1944; Parkersburg News-Memorial Notice-28 May 2001; St. Mary's Oracle Death Notice-17 August 1944

Notes: completed fifty bombing missions over in Europe. Died of a drowning Accident in S.C.

South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955
Name: Quentin B Kemp   Death Date: 13 Aug 1944
Age at Death: 24 Years Born: 1920 (1919) Gender: Male   Color: White
County of Death: Marion   Certificate Number: 009958

DEATH CERTIFICATE~~
World War II Young American Patriots, 1941-1945
Name: Quentin B. Kemp Rank: Staff Sergeant Branch: United States Army Birth Date: 5 Sep 1919 Service Date: 7 May 1941 Parent 1 Name: Mr. A B Kemp; Mrs. Archie B. Kemp State: West Virginia County: Wood

321st Bomb Group Historical Research Team; John T Fitzgerald, Patti Johnson and Barbi Ennis Connolly (321st BG Historian) PRINCESSBARBIB25@msn.com 24 Sept. 2013_

Quentin Kemp