Kenneth Robert (Bob) Kessnger was born in 1918 in Limon County, Colorado.  He was the only child of Raymond D. and Letitia W. Kessenger. His family moved to Goodland, Sherman Co., Kansas in 1931. He graduated in 1936 from St. Joseph’s Military Academy. After graduation he enrolled in Colorado University where he completed a three-year course in pre-medicine. He spent the next two years in the Marine Corps, receiving training at the San Diego Base as an officer.  On 13 January 1942, he joined the USAAF. He was assigned to the 786 Bomb Squadron of the 466 Bomb Group, and he piloted a B-24 Liberator.  On 8 April 1944, his bomber was shot down while on a mission to bomb an aircraft factory near Brunswick, Germany.Lt. Kessenger was from Goodland, Kansas and attended the University of Colorado.  The bomber's Navigator, Roland C. Boulter, and the Right Waist Gunner, Albert English, are also buried at the Ardennes American Cemetery.  
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