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Technical Sergeant Canning was a crew member of a B-29A Superfortress Bomber with the 28th Bomber Squadron, 19th Bomber Group. On June 10, 1952, while on a night mission, the aircraft was hit by rocket fire from a MiG near Kwaksan, North Korea and exploded. He was listed as Missing in Action and was presumed dead on February 28, 1954.
Son of Clarence Percy and Mabel E. Buck Canning. Husband of Bessie Marie Broaderick Canning who was from Stillwater, Oklahoma, married in Benton, Arkansas