Wally Kinnan Military person

Henry Wallace "Wally" Kinnan (March 7, 1919 – November 22, 2002) was a decorated World War II hero, also was one of the first well known U.S. pioneer television broadcast meteorologists. Kinnan held American Meteorological Society Television Seal #3. Kinnan, who also served in World War II as a B-17 bomber pilot and then an Advanced Weather Officer attaining the rank of Captain in the United States Air Force before resigning in March 1953 to enter broadcasting in Oklahoma.

Personal facts

Birth date	March 07, 1919
Birth place	Crooksville Ohio
Date of death	November 22, 2002
Place of death	Houston

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award	Purple Heart Air Medal Prisoner of War Medal
military operations	Sicily World War II
military branch	United States Army Air Forces
military unit	429th Bombardment Squadron
relation	Timothy A. Kinnan
service start	1942
service end	1953