Cork island unveils memorial to US airman

An island community has honoured a young US First World War airman who died in a plane crash off the south coast while returning from a dangerous anti submarine patrol.

Cork island unveils memorial to US airman

Residents of Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay, Co Cork, also remembered the teen aviator who survived the crash and arranged for his descendants to lay a wreath at the crash site.

Californian Kym Kemp, whose grandfather, radio operator Neil Kemp, was just 18 when he was injured in the disaster, said it was a very special moment for her family. Accompanied at the poignant ceremonies on Saturday by her husband, Kevin Church, their son, Malachi, 12, and her mother-in-law, Donna Robinson, Ms Kemp said: “We had been trying to find out for some time what happened that day.

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