Military Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Military Committee, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium) said, "she thought sometimes the language in these letters sounded a little stilted, a little odd. Timothy Kinnan, Wally's youngest son (U.S. Kinnan and the band stayed behind as cover. Wally was part of the United States' intelligence program. government and then sent on to Kinnan's wife. General in the Air Force, said that his dad through encoded letters to Marjorie, informed the United States War Department (now the Department of Defense) that fifty of the escapees were recaptured by the Germans and were shot by firing squad.
The motion picture showed a choir singing while the escape started but in actuality, it was a band called "The Sagan Serenaders." Wally Kinnan (and Pilot Officer Leonard Whiteley of the British Royal Air Force) organized and led that musical group.
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This group of Prisoners-of-War took part in an attempted escape that was immortalized in a book and the 1963 movie called, "The Great Escape." Included in this group were pianist John Bunch who would later play with Woody Herman and Benny Goodman Tiger Ward John Brady Hi Bevins Nick Nagorka and trumpeter Vince Shank who later would play with Russ Morgan.
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They produced a wealth of professional musical talent. Near the end of 1943, there were many new prisoners coming into the camp. He wrote, "The seventh required the player to reach over his shoulder and pull a chain which, in turn, operated a rotary valve in a veritable maze of tubing to produce the desired result." Kinnan mentioned that the awkward trombone was "quickly retired from active duty when some of the more inventive lads determined that the extensive tubing of the old horn could be put to more popular use in a homemade still." Wally Kinnan wrote in the Ex-POW Bulletin, "We were forced to make the most of a very few musical instruments of dubious heritage, which had been acquired from the Germans, the Red Cross and the YMCA." Wally told the story of the classic among the instruments was a Polish trombone that Wally described as "a plumber's nightmare." He said that it could hit only six of the classic trombone slide positions. He was a prisoner for two years in Stalag Luft #3 in Sagan, Germany, about 90 miles southeast of Berlin. Kinnan was a Second World War B-17 bomber pilot who was shot down while flying on a bombing mission over Schweinfurt in Nazi Germany. I had just enough for a daily cheesesteak from a place on 22nd Street.īorn in 1919, Lt. That gave me as few months to work at the Institute in exchange for lunch and subway fare. I was in the last winter graduating class at Central, and started at Penn State in late March. I worked for Wally at the Franklin Institute when I worked there in the winter of 1965. Wally almost came to work for AccuWeather in the 70s. and the late Wally Kinnan were my favorites when I was growing up. He was the meteorologist on the station and was teamed up with legendary news anchor Vince Leonard, a member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia.īroadcast Pioneers member Elliot Abrams, Senior Vice-President for Accu-Weather e-mailed in 2008:
The station was an NBC O&O (owned and operated) station. When he was here in Philly, he did the weather forecasting on WRCV-TV, Channel 3. Wally did his weather "thing" in Oklahoma City (WKY-TV), Cleveland (WKYC-TV), Tampa and Philadelphia (WRCV-TV). Kinnan moved with his wife Marjorie to the Texan city four and a half years before his death to live near his oldest son, David.
Henry Wallace Kinnan was known to Philadelphians as "Wally Kinnan, the Weatherman." Wally Kinnan passed away at the age of 83 of an aortic aneurysm on Friday, Novemin Houston, Texas.
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