Wallace Louis Tyner

Military

media-37216.jpeg UPL 37216 2LT Wallace Louis Tyner
Co-Pilot
Crew #616 - Kenneth Kessenger Crew
466th BG - 786th BS

Object Number - UPL 37216 - 2LT Wallace Louis Tyner Co-Pilot Crew #616 - Kenneth Kessenger Crew 466th BG - 786th BS

Shot down 8 April 1944 in B-24 #42-52610 'The Madam', Prisoner of War (POW).

POW

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Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Shawnee, OK, USA	2 February 1917
Other Shot Down/Captured	Brunswick, Germany	8 April 1942
Other POW	Barth, Germany	8 April 1942 - 30 May 1945	Stalag Luft I
Died	Clinton, KS 66047, USA	4 October 2000	Lifelong Shawnee resident Wallace Louis Tyner died Wednesday in Clinton. He was 83. Tyner was born Feb. 2, 1917, in Shawnee, the son of Davis and Sally (Hood) Tyner. He graduated from Shawnee High School in 1934, and from Haskell Junior College in Kansas in 1936. A prisoner of war in Germany for 13 months, Tyner served with the Air Corps during World War II. Before retiring, he lived in Lashkargah, Afghanistan for three years. Tyner retired from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation after 37 years of service. He later worked for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, and served on the tribal constitution committee. He was a member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, and active in the elders group. Tyner also participated in the Elks, AARP, and the Oklahoma chapter of POWs. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church of Shawnee, and was a church elder.
Buried	Tecumseh, OK, USA	7 October 2000	Tecumseh Cemetery Tecumseh Pottawatomie County Oklahoma, USA Plot: A7 B3
Other Graduated	Lawrence, KS, USA		Haskell Indian Nations University
Shot Down/Captured	Laguna, NM 87038, USA		Box 25