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Pvt Grover Hanners

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Pvt Grover Hanners

Birth
Heenon, Pike County, Kentucky, USA
Death
26 Nov 1943 (aged 19)
Burial
Heenon, Pike County, Kentucky, USA
Memorial ID
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Grover Hanners was the son of Bradley and Wilda Maynard Hanners. His siblings were Brad, Jr., Georgia, Ethel, Norma, Lucille, and Ulysses.

Pvt. Grover Hanners
Son of Brad and Wilda
Feb. 26, 1924-Nov. 26, 1943
322 AAF Fighter Control
(Inducted April 14, 1943)
"Pvt. Hanners was among the 1,138 casualties aboard the HMT Rohna, part of a convoy on the way from Oran to the Far East via the Suez Canal. It was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea near Bejaia, Algeria, by German Luftwaffe. It was the first casualty of a guided missile."
(Research done by Everett Johnson, Curator/Historian, Big Sandy Heritage Center)

Grover Hanners was the son of Bradley and Wilda Maynard Hanners. His siblings were Brad, Jr., Georgia, Ethel, Norma, Lucille, and Ulysses.

Pvt. Grover Hanners
Son of Brad and Wilda
Feb. 26, 1924-Nov. 26, 1943
322 AAF Fighter Control
(Inducted April 14, 1943)
"Pvt. Hanners was among the 1,138 casualties aboard the HMT Rohna, part of a convoy on the way from Oran to the Far East via the Suez Canal. It was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea near Bejaia, Algeria, by German Luftwaffe. It was the first casualty of a guided missile."
(Research done by Everett Johnson, Curator/Historian, Big Sandy Heritage Center)

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