Kenneth Russell Arnette, aged 32, was born on August 31, 1912 in Rutherford County, North Carolina and was a Captain during World War II. On February 4, 1945, Capt. Arnette was a passenger aboard C-46A #42-107386 aircraft on a transfer mission. This C46 with a crew of two and 33 passengers departed Chabua Air base in India for Karachi in Pakistan. While flying over remote Jungle terrain they developed mechanical problems caught fire and crashed on mountain elevation of 6559 feet killing 35. Twenty two of the passengers were in the 22nd Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group being sent home for reassignment. Miraculously there was 1 survivor T/Sgt. Marvin H. Jacobs. He walked away with minor cuts and bruises and was soon rescued by locals and repatriated to the US. The casualties were eventually located and buried in a mass grave at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in 1950.

Captain Archer remains are buried Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. He has a cenotaph memorial in Beaver Cemetery, East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. His body was not recovered.

He He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is also commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China and on a monument in Oakdale Cemetery, Hendersonville, NC.

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