406th NLS
Canner Crew

Photo scanned from 'Secret Squadrons of the 8th'.

Standing, L-R: 
Gerben A. Coehoorn      -    Navigator      ASN T-132861 (DNB)
Edwin M.  Canner        -    Pilot          ASN 0127423
Marcena   Parker-Butts  -    Copilot        ASN 0928981
Mike      Markovich     -    Bombardier     ASN T-132719

Kneeling, L-R: 
James      Mancuso      -    R.O.           ASN 33764654
Walter     Mark         -    WG             ASN 33920868
Reuben J.  Hill         -    WG             ASN 37551355
James R.   Keaton       -    BTG            ASN 39129155
Ralph W.   Featherstone -    Engineer       ASN 34842520
Charles R. Bunnell      -    TG             ASN 35912992

ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.

The complete crew never flew out of Harrington,only into it. Transferring to Harrington from Cheddington on 14 March 1945, their plane lost an engine and altitude shortly after takeoff. On landing at Station 179, one wheel strut collapsed, sending the plane tumbling and killing the Navigator. Only two crew members, Parker-Butts and Markovitch, escaped injury. They later flew with other crews at Harrington. Parker-Butts departed Harrington on 28Jun45 with the Bingham crew. Fifty-five years later, it was ruled that all killed and injured should be awarded the Purple Heart, because the accident was due to aircraft damage by the enemy two weeks prior that had been incorrectly repaired. For dramatic pictures of the crash, download the Canner incident file.

Photo Credit and Names: Edwin Canner

Additional crew data sources:
Crew Personnel files

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