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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
C/1220
Age:
28
Rank:
Squadron Leader
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
418 Sqdn.
Birth:
August 20, 1916
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 9, 1939
Death:
October 22, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1. G. 10.
Additional information
Son of Frank Daniel Boomer and Nettie Alice Boomer (nee Masler) of Ottawa, Ontario.
Husband of Jean Millar Boomer of Ottawa, Ontario.
Additional citations
Air Medal (United States) - Alaska - Award effective 23 December 1942 as per AFRO 272/43 dated 19 February 1943.
Digital gallery of Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
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Photo of Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Squadron Leader K.A Boomer -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Ken Boomer
Aleutian Campaign -
Photo of Ken Boomer
21 December 1942 Squadron Leader Ken Boomer, D.F.C., A.A.M. of Ottawa, who was the first pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force to shoot down a Japanese plane in defense of North America. For this feat he received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Canada and the United States Army Air Medal from the United States Government which decorations he is wearing in the above picture, He also fought in Britain before battling the Japanese in the Aleutians -
Photo of KENNETH ARTHUR BOOMER
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of KENNETH ARTHUR BOOMER
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
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Id Card
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star December 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 253 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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