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Kite, Max Vernon, CPT.
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Home Town Parsons
Date of Passing Dec 31, 1978
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Captain Max Vernon Kite attended WVU and was employed as a chemist before enlisting with the AAF Lockbourne AAB, Colombus, Ohio as a aviation cadet on 21 December 1942. He received Advanced Bombardier Training at Midland Texas before leaving for overseas on 11 March 1943. Arriving in North Africa 20 March 1943 he was assigned to the 20th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group as Bombardier and participted in the Sicily, Tunisia, and Naples-Foggia campaigns where he received the Air Medal w/ 9 oak leaf clusters, the E.A.M.E. service medal w/ 3 campaign stars, and the WWII Victory Medal. On 7 November 1943 Captain Kite sailed home arriving on 15 November 1943 were he was assigned to the 2528th AAF Base Unit in Midland Texas. On 17 April 1944 he married Aura Jean Little in Parsons West Virginia. On 4 November 1945 Captain Kite was honorably dischraged from the AAF. He had 2 children and worked as an optometrist before he passed away in December 1978 in St. Clairesville Ohio.
Captain Kite is on the far right in the picture above.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Naples-Foggia Campaign (1943-44)
From Month/Year
August / 1943
To Month/Year
January / 1944
Description (Naples-Foggia Campaign 18 Aug 1943-21 Jan 1944 (Air); 9 Sep 1943-21 Jan 1944 (Ground) After Allied bombardment of communications and airfields in Italy, Montgomery crossed the Strait of Messina on 3 September 1943 and started northward. Five days later Eisenhower announced that the Italian Government had surrendered. Fifth Army, under Clark, landed at Salerno on g September and managed to stay despite furious counterattacks. By 18 September the Germans were withdrawing northward. On 27 September Eighth Army occupied the important airfields of Foggia, and on I October Fifth Army took Naples. As the Allies pushed up the peninsula, the enemy slowed the advance and brought it to a halt at the Gustav Line.
