Staff Sergeant Kelso Poore

The Tribune
Seymour, Indiana
Friday, October 27, 1944
Page 1

County Airman Listed Missing Over Germany

S/Sgt. Poore, Lost Since October 6, Had Won Oak Leaf Cluster Recently

Word that Staff Sergeant Kelso M. Poore, age twenty-seven, has been missing since October 6, when he participated in an air-raid over Germany, has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Poore of Medora.

S/Sgt. Poore, who only recntly received an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Air Medal for displaying "courage, coolness and skill" on a bombing raid over Berlin, was a member of a B-17 Flying Fortress bombing crew. He had been overseas since the middle of May.

A graduate of Medora High School with the class of 1935, S/Sgt. Poore went to New York City to study air conditioning and refrigeration. Returning to this county in 1941, he entered the army and for eighteen months was stationed with the military police force at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

Receives Air Training.

Transferring to the Army Air Corps, S/Sgt. Poore received training at Kelly Field, Hondo Field and Shepard Field, Texas and Denver, Colorado.

Returning to Texas, he was sent to Kearney, Nebraska.

S/Sgt. Poore has two sisters, Mrs. Wilford Mundy, of Yakina, Washington, and Mrs. L.W. Fox, of Muncie, and one brother, First Lieutenant Max Poore, who is with General Patton's Third Army somewhere in France.