Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-04-07 | Page 8 | S L Flier Helps Bomb Japs Based on Truk

r L t S L Flier Helps Bomb Japs Based on WITH THE SEVENTH ARMY AIR FORCE IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS April 1 Delayed UP P Major Kenneth M. M Brown I Third avenue Salt Lake City a squadron commander in in the bomber bomber command participated in ina a night raid over Surprised by the lack of antiaircraft antiaircraft anti anti- aircraft fire Major Brown in offering a possible explanation said One plane plan reported it was being jumped by three fighters The antiaircraft batteries may have held fire rather than risk hitting hitting hitting hit hit- hit hit- ting their own planes tf tc if I I if Major Brown is the son of Mr and Mrs A. A S. S Brown Third avenue Before Before enlisting in the army in 1941 he was was graduated from West high school and attended attended attended at at- tended the the University of Utah He received his commission as a second lieutenant in the A A F at i Stockton Cal and has been overseas overseas overseas over over- seas since September 1943 His father Mr Brown is chairman of the state department of publicity and industrial development