Tanner Landon Prentice

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Landon Prentice Tanner is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

RB-29A 'Overexposed' Memorial

Name:

Landon Prentice Tanner

Rank:

Captain

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Unit:

16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group

Date of Death:

1948-11-03

State:

Wisconsin

Cemetery:

Woodland Cemetery, Woodland, California

Plot:

Blk-20 Lt-17

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Landon Prentice Tanner was born on July 16, 1915, in Brownville, Mitchell County, Iowa. He was the son of Harry Wesley Tanner and Winifred Irma Reynolds Tanner. Landon was married to Erma L. Tindall Tanner. He was the pilot aboard U.S. Air Force RB-29A Superfortress #44-61999. He perished when the reconnaissance-variant bomber, named "Overexposed" collided, in poor visibility weather, with a ridgetop called Higher Shelf Stones, near Glossop, England (approximately midway between Manchester and Sheffield) while on a flight from RAF Scampton to RAF Burtonwood. All 13 aboard were killed.

CPT Tanner is now buried in the Woodland Cemetery, Woodland, Yolo County, California, USA.

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