Area Frewsburg man was among 20 killed during an Army training accident.On September 2, 1953, 40 trainees with the 406th Engineer Training Brigade at Fort Bragg, North Carolina while giving a demonstration aboard an engineered pontoon raft on nearby Smith Lake. The raft overturned when the men moved to one side of the raft as it took on water after hitting a large wave. Twenty trainees drowned. The testing of rafting was done to support the Korean War.
Pvt Dan Arthur Turney was a member of Company A, 406th Engineer Training Brigade, 981st Engineer Construction Battalion at Ft. Bragg. Private Turney attended Frewsburg schools and was employed at the American Manufacturing Company in Falconer before his induction into the Army. He was survived by his wife Theresa Bink Turney and unborn son Danial. The son of Donald D. and Martha A. Robbins Turney, a sister, Mrs. Grace D. Long.
Note: further information about the training accident see below
http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/stateside_tragedies/p_pontoon_r...
