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George Carlton Banning

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George Carlton Banning

Birth
Connecticut, USA
Death
11 May 1953 (aged 21)
Burial
Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Army soldier. Died in Korean War in North Korea sector. Killed in Action
Specialty Light Weapons Assault Crewman Or Light Weapons Infantry Leader.
William Banning, his father wrote a letter to President Harry S. Truman angry his son was killed in the Korean War. The letter was found after Truman's desk after all those years with the metal by people managing the museum and displayed. It must have really bothered President Truman to have put it in his desk and look at it for many years till his death as a reminder of people dying in the war on his watch.

He was the son of
William Banning
1906 – 1981
And
Alice Elizabeth Murphy
1906 – 1959
Army soldier. Died in Korean War in North Korea sector. Killed in Action
Specialty Light Weapons Assault Crewman Or Light Weapons Infantry Leader.
William Banning, his father wrote a letter to President Harry S. Truman angry his son was killed in the Korean War. The letter was found after Truman's desk after all those years with the metal by people managing the museum and displayed. It must have really bothered President Truman to have put it in his desk and look at it for many years till his death as a reminder of people dying in the war on his watch.

He was the son of
William Banning
1906 – 1981
And
Alice Elizabeth Murphy
1906 – 1959


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