M.221  First Officer Ralph Vincent Canning 

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  b.1 Dec 1904, San Francisco CA  9 Aug 1940 to 8 May 1941

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Ed. High School

m. R, 2 children

prev. "Aviation"

Address in 1940: 1823 2nd Ave, Sacramento CA

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"Ken Kleaver, Ralph Canning and Fred Du Puy ["Berkeley World War Aviator", later a Lt-Col, USAAF], all from California, en route to Canada where they will serve the British Government"

Postings: 1FPP, 2FPP

Suspended without pay for a week in Jan-41 for "General Misdemeanour" [as was his fellow 'California Prune Picker' Ken Kleaver]

Off sick from 21 Feb 1941

Contract Terminated 8 May 1941

d. 1969, Texas

 

 


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