Joseph P. Kennedy jr. was killed in action during a WWII mission named "Operation Aphrodite" in which him and his fellow pilots were designated to drop 21,170 lb (9,600 kg) of Torpex (A highly explosive bomb). Kennedy radioed in that they were ready to drop the bomb and he set the fuse. However 2 minutes later the Torpex explosive went off prematurely killing both Kennedy and his co-pilot Willy.
<em>The photo bellow is the last photo of LT. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. before his flight mission.</em>
A witness to the plane explosion that killed Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. during World War II said a West German newspaper`s claim that Kennedy was captured by SS men and shot while trying to escape is ''an absolutely cockamamie story.'' The West German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday that Kennedy, the older brother of President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.), was shot to death by Nazi SS soldiers in July, 1944, as he tried to escape.
