Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper Clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Memorial – Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Nordheimer is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flying Officer Kenneth Albert Nordheimer is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of KENNETH ALBERT NORDHEIMER – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of KENNETH ALBERT NORDHEIMER – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Service Book – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – Toronto Star 1945

Cemetery – Lancaster III PB239 of 405 Sqn took off 21.15 Gransden Lodge on a mission to attack the port city of Kiel. It is believed that PB239 was claimed by a German night fighter and crashed in the North Sea south west of Denmark near the island of Sylt 17/8 1944 killing the whole crew. Today Pilot F/O Charles H. Fisher and W/OP WO1 Forest D. Billingsley rest in Kiel War Cemetery. Navigator F/L John S. Bruce RAF, Air Gnr. F/S Joseph W. Carter and F/L Maxwell B. Calhoun DFC have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. After about a week Air Bomber F/Lt Kenneth D. Kemp was washed ashore on the beach near Højer Sluse lock. The Germans left the body on the beach for 6-7 days before they buried it on the spot where it was found. On 9/1 1946 his remains were disinterred and taken to Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg where he was laid to rest on 10/1-1946. Flt. Engr. Sgt Eric N. Jolly RAF and Air Gnr. F/O Kenneth A. Nordheimer were found washed ashore on the island of Rømø and were laid to rest in Kirkeby cemetery on 7/9 1944.

Photo of Kenneth Albert Nordheimer – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me