Armon Burnette “Burne” Banner Jr. was the son of Armon Burnette Banner Sr. and Petty Ann Cora Belle Collis. He married Anna Rhea McDonald in 1942. He had been in the army since Oct. 29, 1942 and was named an aviation cadet in May, 1943.
He Died non Battle 14 April 1944, in a plane crash at Coffeyville, Kansas
Private First Class
Buried at Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina
The Bristol Herald Courier, 16 April 1944
Armon Burnette Banner Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Banner, formerly of Bristol and now of Winston-Salem, N.C., was killed Friday in a plane crash at Coffeyville, Kansas, where young Banner was taking advanced pilot training with the Army Air Forces, it was learned here yesterday. The fatally injured man, a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. B.N. Collis of Tennessee avenue, was to have received his flying wings with the next few weeks. Details of the crash were not learned.
- Rank: Aviation Cadet
- Date of birth: 9 November 1921
- Date of death: 14 April 1944
- County: Sullivan
- Service Branch: Army/Army Air Forces
- Conflict: World War II
- Burial/Memorial Location: Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, NC
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XVIII, Top Panel
- Contact us to sponsor Armon B. Banner Jr.
Image Gallery
Click a thumbnail below to view at full size.
