• July 23, 1905 – Aug. 7, 1942
• Blount County, Tennessee
• College of Pharmacy – 1926
• Flight Officer – Air Transport Division
• Flying instructor in the Royal Air Force at Terrell, Texas
• Army Ferry Command. Killed when the bomber he was flying exploded in the air and crashed, Cismont, VA.
• Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee

Kenneth George Clemens (July 23, 1905 – Aug. 7, 1942) was born in Blount County, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee’s College of Medicine in 1926. Clemens volunteered as a flight officer for the Air Transport Division of the United States Army at the start of the war. He first served as a flying instructor in Texas before being an officer in command of the US Army Air Force’s ferrying operations concerning the transportation of bombers across the country to be shipped for overseas service. During a ferrying mission to the East Coast on August 7, 1942, Officer Clemens’s bomber that he was ferrying suffered a catastrophic malfunction mid-air and exploded in Cismont, Virginia, outside of Charlottesville. He is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.

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