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President John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s older brother, LT Joseph Kennedy, Jr. (for whom their father had presidential dreams) was blown to pieces in the air on a volunteer mission due to what was probably a faulty harness in 1944. No remains recovered. Co-pilot LT Wilford John Willy also died in the explosion.
>> Beau Biden was "smashed to a beauzillion pieces."
Not sure what anon is referring to about Beau Biden but President JFK's older brother, LT Joseph Kennedy Jr., was literally blown to pieces, no remains recovered, on a dangerous volunteer mission when the explosives he was flying to a German V-2 rocket launching site detonated prematurely.
Joseph Kennedy Jr. attended flight training school and in the spring of 1942 became a naval aviator. After flying patrols in the Caribbean, he went to Europe in the fall of 1943 to fly with the British Naval Command. He completed enough combat missions to become eligible to return home to the United States but opted to remain in the military and volunteer for a dangerous, top-secret bombing campaign over Normandy, France, codenamed Operation Aphrodite. Kennedy’s mission was to direct an explosives-packed, radio-controlled drone Liberator bomber into a German V-2 rocket launching site. However, on the evening of August 12, 1944, the explosives in Kennedy’s plane detonated prematurely in flight, and he died at age 29."
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/joseph-kennedy-jr
"An electronics officer, Earl Olsen, who believed the wiring harness had a design defect, had warned Kennedy of that possibility the day before the mission but was ignored."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Jr. [citing Renehan, Edward J. Jr. (2002). The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945. New York: Doubleday. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-385-50165-1].
Operations Aphrodite and Anvil
Operation Aphrodite
"Operation Aphrodite was the use of Army Air Corps Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Navy Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator bombers that were converted into flying bombs and deliberately crashed into their targets under radio control from an accompanying bomber.[7] They were to be used for precision attacks on well-protected targets.
"These "drone" aircraft could not take off safely on their own and so a crew of two would take off and fly to 2,000 feet (610 m) altitude before they activated the remote control system, armed the detonators, and parachuted from the aircraft. After trials, the first mission took place on August 4, 1944, against targets including the Fortress of Mimoyecques, an underground military complex under construction in northern France. There was little success[8]
"The U.S. Navy also participated in Operation Aphrodite, with its portion referred to as Operation Anvil.[9] Kennedy had been appointed a lieutenant on July 1.[6] After the U.S. Army Air Corps operation missions were drawn up on July 23, lieutenants Wilford John Willy [10] and Kennedy were designated as the Navy's first Anvil flight crew.[11] Willy, who was the executive officer of Special Air Unit 1, had also volunteered for the mission and pulled rank over Ensign James Simpson, who was Kennedy's regular co-pilot.[8][12]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Jr