Dean Harold Sanner
Military
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Object Number - UPL 20498 - Reich's Ruin with crew. Dean H. Sanner, pilot, back row, 2nd from left.
35 x combat missions on B-17's. Transferred to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.
On 13-Aug-44, pilot Sanner and cameraman August Kurjack were on a photo reconnaissance of drone bomber (Aphrodite) attack on Le Havre E-boat pens in Mosquito MM370 bomber. Flew to low and close and hit by the bombs explosion, became a POW
Postwar he returned to USAF and remained in SAC flying B-52 on Arclight mission over Vietnam.
Awards: DFC, AM (4OLC), PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 8th Combat Camera Unit 25th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 06994841
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Cameraman
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16028599 / O-?
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 13 August 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Buhl, ID | 6 July 1922 | Son of Webster Raymond and Nellie Mae [Lowery] Sanner. |
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Enlisted |
Salt Lake City, UT | 5 June 1942 | Salt Lake City, Utah |
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Other Baled from crashing A/C |
Le Havre, France | 13 August 1944 | |
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Other Prisoner Of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 13 August 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
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Other Discharged USAAF |
14 January 1947 | Honourable discharge. | |
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Enlisted |
18 January 1953 | Enlisted USAF | |
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Other Discharged USAF |
31 August 1968 | Honourable discharge. | |
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Died |
Littleton, CO | 26 August 1997 | |
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Buried |
Fort Logan National Cemetery Denver, Denver County, CO | 29 August 1997 | Fort Logan National Cemetery Denver, Denver County, Colorado |
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Based |
Chelveston | Assigned to 365BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. | |
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Based |
Watton | 13 August 1944 | Transferred to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Other Commissioned |
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. |
Revisions
https://www.fold3.com/record/69952363/dean-h-sanner-social-security-dea…
https://www.fold3.com/record/84968865/dean-h-sanner-wwii-army-enlistmen…
https://www.fold3.com/record/623217055/dean-sanner-1922-veterans-affair…
https://www.fold3.com/record/708766317/sanner-dean-h-u-s-veterans-grave…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1151301/dean-harold-sanner
Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.
Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.
Combat Chronology Supplements p. 540 and 193, Aerial Intelligence of the 8th AF, p.175; Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 12 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
