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Harry Jesse Kenyon, Jr.

Graduating Class of 1942
Served in World War II
Attached photograph of Captain Kenyon

Captain
Harry Jesse Kenyon, Jr.

Army
17th Airborne Division
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Hometown

Fond du Lac, WI

Date of Birth

Location of Death

Wesel, Germany

Date of Death

Location of Burial

West Point Cemetery, West Point, NY

More About Captain Kenyon

Captain Kenyon registered for the draft 27 Apr 1942. Captain Kenyon was killed in Operation Varsity, a U.S. Army airborne assault into Germany across the Rhine river and was awarded the Silver Star for bravery.