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| Lt Kenneth P Dunaway Jr P-47D Evader |
March 16, 2011 66 years later……………….
Lt. Boteler’s daughter, Cynthia contacted me after finding my website and inquired about
her father. I was able to give her Lt. Dunaway’s Missing Air Crew Report (MACR 8546)
so she could read her father’s witness statement.
As I always do when contacted I checked to see if I could locate any other information
about the MACR. I found a posting on the warbird information exchange from someone
who had been looking for Lt. Dunaway and someone had replied with contact
information. I forwarded this information to Cynthia in hopes she might be able to make
contact. Here is her reply:
Dear Curt,
I thought you would be interested to know that Kenneth Dunaway is alive at 93 and living
in Kansas City. I spoke to him on the phone for about an hour last Thursday. He was
pleased to receive the call and was happy to know who the pilot was who told him to go
up and gain altitude. My father was the last person he heard from before he bailed.
In any event, Lt. Dunaway is excited as his daughter reported, “He has told us the story
so many times, and always ended with the fact he never knew who told him to get
altitude.”
Cynthia
Lt. Boteler’s daughter, Cynthia contacted me after finding my website and inquired about
her father. I was able to give her Lt. Dunaway’s Missing Air Crew Report (MACR 8546)
so she could read her father’s witness statement.
As I always do when contacted I checked to see if I could locate any other information
about the MACR. I found a posting on the warbird information exchange from someone
who had been looking for Lt. Dunaway and someone had replied with contact
information. I forwarded this information to Cynthia in hopes she might be able to make
contact. Here is her reply:
Dear Curt,
I thought you would be interested to know that Kenneth Dunaway is alive at 93 and living
in Kansas City. I spoke to him on the phone for about an hour last Thursday. He was
pleased to receive the call and was happy to know who the pilot was who told him to go
up and gain altitude. My father was the last person he heard from before he bailed.
In any event, Lt. Dunaway is excited as his daughter reported, “He has told us the story
so many times, and always ended with the fact he never knew who told him to get
altitude.”
Cynthia