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Army Cadet Found After 66 Years

Crew perished during WWII training flight; military funeral planned

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 11, 2008 12:55 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Sixty-six years after his disappearance, a full military funeral is planned for a cadet lost in a flight accident during World War II, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Army has identified a recently discovered body as Aviation Cadet Ernest Munn of Ohio, who crashed with three other crewmen in an AT-7 Navigator flying over Kings Canyon National Park in 1942.

The crash site was discovered in 1947, but the army couldn't identify individual remains, so all four received a group burial. In 2005, hikers discovered the frozen body of another cadet who had been a passenger, and last August Munn’s body was found nearby. "It's sort of a closure," said Munn's sister, 88-year-old Jeanne Pyle. "I can still see my mother. She would just set and cry."

Cadet Ernest Munn was thought to be buried with the other crash victims.
Cadet Ernest Munn was thought to be buried with the other crash victims.   (Shutterstock)
An AT-7 Navigator from World War II, like the one in which Ernest Munn was a passenger when it crashed in 1942.
An AT-7 Navigator from World War II, like the one in which Ernest Munn was a passenger when it crashed in 1942.   (ShutterStock)
A WWII-era AT-7 Navigator. Cadet Ernest Munn was killed when an aircraft of the same model crashed on Nov. 18, 1942.
A WWII-era AT-7 Navigator. Cadet Ernest Munn was killed when an aircraft of the same model crashed on Nov. 18, 1942.   (Shutterstock)
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