Edward John Panner
Military
These photos are from the collection of Val Svoboda . As a teenager in Latvia during WW2 they fled and walked of foot through Poland to Germany and worked in aircraft repair factory in Heiligenbeil repairing damaged Luftwaffe aircraft until they were liberated by US Troops in early 1945 . They worked as house keepers for the 10th PRG Photo Recon Group at Furth Airfield near Nuremberg , till the end of the war then other US army units in Occupied Germany and the IRO International Refugee Organisation . She was married and emigrated to Australia in 1950 . She Died in 2015 .
Object Number - UPL 25329 - Edward J Panner 12th TRS 1945 - Furth Germany
Edward Panner flew F-6 Mustangs with the 12th Tactical Recon Squadron of the 10th Photo Recon Group. He was with them at Azelot, France in 1944, and at Furth, Germany in 1945. In Germany, he met Val Svoboda, a Latvian who was working as a house keeper for the 10th PRG while they were stationed at Furth Airfield near Nuremberg.
He was part of the class of 1962 at La Fayette College, Pa. and afterwards worked as an engineer at Bell Labs in Bethlehem, Pa., until he retired. In the college magazine it records that Edward as 'an inventor who held several patents, he was recognized for building the world’s first electronic cash register.'
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Enlisted |
Allentown, PA, USA | 11 January 1943 | |
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Died |
Lake Havasu City, AZ, USA | 17 December 2010 | |
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Born |
Szentgotthárd, Hungary | Son of John and Rosa Panner | |
| Lehigh County, PA, USA |
Revisions
Via Ancestry:
1930 census - gives place of birth as 'St Gotthard, Hungary'.
NARA enlistment record: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&tf=F&q=edw…
Death notice: http://lakehavasumortuary.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/615689/Ed…
La Fayette College magazine: https://magazine.lafayette.edu/spring2012/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/20…
