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Subject: GEORGE KESSLER DUNNING b. 1918 July 31 Boulder, CO Author: JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Thu, July 11 2019, 0:04:52 In reply to: Anonymous 's message, "George Dunning" on Tue, July 09 2019, 19:53:20 Born:31 July 1918 Boulder, Colorado, .....United States of America. Died:03 February, 1944. ......Broward County, Florida* *US Navy plane crash 7 miles east of Miami, FL. Body not .recovered. Real name: George Kessler Dunning. Height: adult 5'10". George's Dad was a foreman for a heavy equipment machinery manufacturer. He worked as a laborer at a gold mine in Calavaras County, CA where his Dad was foreman. By October 1940, George was working at the General Motors Automotive plant near Los Angeles. In February of 1944, he was an enlisted man in the US Navy as an Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class at the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station. With 8 others, he took off on a routine training flight. Two boats witnessed the plane crashing into the Atlantic, 7 miles east of Miami, from a high altitude and quickly reached the site but recovered only debris. A two-day search recovered no bodies. A further newspaper search doesn't mention any bodies recovered later and records for George do not show up at the 2 major on-line grave websites and military BIRLS site. The "LA Times" (12 Feb 1944 p.18) blurb about his death says that he had "worked in motion pictures". ANM contributor, younghollywoodhof.com has a nice photo from the Watson Family Photographic Archive of George from the 1928 film "Taxi 13" with Martha Sleeper.(posted at IMDb.) Sources: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&indiv=try&h=67642056 1940 Census CA working gold mine with Dad. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=17435871&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=qqD112&_phstart=successSource 1940 Oct WWII Draft: birth 31 July 1918, Boulder, CO: adult ht. 5'10". https://www.newspapers.com/image/230023655/?terms=%22george%2Bdunning%22 1944 Feb:Plane crash described. https://www.newspapers.com/image/380693334/?terms=%22george%2Bk.%2Bdunning%22 1944 Feb: worked in movies. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VV9B-W8W 1944 Feb: FL Broward Death Record. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019448/mediaviewer/rm1790391552 1928 "Taxi 13" photo from younghollywoodhof.com. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: GEORGE KESSLER DUNNING b. 1918 July 31 Boulder, CO Lord (added to the site) Thu, July 11 2019, 14:28:01