{"id":62731,"date":"2015-11-12T07:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62731"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:54","slug":"kenneth-jahnke-phony-pearl-harbor-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62731","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Jahnke; phony Pearl Harbor survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of our readers sent us their work on this character, Kenneth Jahnke, who claims to have retired from the Navy as a Commander. He claims that he was a seaman on the USS OKLAHOMA on December 7th, 1941 when the ship was sunk in Pearl Harbor. We wrote about it the other day<\/a>, when DPAA released the information that they’d recovered the final 61 service members who died of the 429 total. Jahnke was born April 12, 1928 – so he was actually 13 years old on the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked, although he claims that he was 17.<\/p>\n

He goes on to claim that he fought in several battles during the Second World War, that he went on to serve in the Korean War and finally Vietnam. Here’s his bio from the Veterans’ History Project at the Library of Congress;<\/p>\n

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We learned a long time ago that the Library of Congress openly admits that they don’t check the veracity of the veterans that they interview, so it’s really not a History Project as I understand the terms, but rather a bar-room bullshit session without the beer.<\/p>\n

And that’s what this is – Bullshit. Jahnke joined the Navy in 1946 – a year after the war ended. He left the service in February 1954. He never served on any of the ships that he claimed to serve upon. And, oh, he was a seaman E-3 when he left the Navy – not a commander. He did serve at Pearl Harbor but well after the Japanese had surrendered.<\/p>\n

\"Kenneth<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

On December 5, 2014, Hugh Hewitt had Jahnke on his radio program and “Commander” Jahnke told the story about how he’d been blown off of the USS OKLAHOMA and rescued by a whaler. Here’s that 22-minute portion of the segment. Our reader tried to get Hewitt to correct the record, but it seems that he was too busy with other issues. He wasn’t too busy to have a complete fraud for filler on his show, though.<\/p>\n