Background
Raised in Mobile, Alabama, Murray Kenneth Guthrie, was the son of K. R. Guthrie.
Raised in Mobile, Alabama, Murray Kenneth Guthrie, was the son of K. R. Guthrie.
He joined the United States Air Service in 1918. Deployed to France, he was assigned to the 13th Aeronautical Squadron, flying SPAD XIII aircraft. Eventually becoming a flight commander, he was credited with downing six Fokker Doctorate.VIIs, becoming was the highest scoring ace in his squadron.
After the war, Guthrie returned to Minnesota where he co-founded an advertising agency, became an officer in a financial institution and started a food supplement company.
In 1951, he moved to Texas and became a rancher.
