Career
After flight training, he was commissioned ensign 3 September 1941 and served with Bombing Squadron 3 in United States Ship Saratoga (CV-3). Ensign Cooner was then killed in a plane crash during flight operations out of National Academy of Sciences, USA Pearl Harbor on 16 June 1942. The United States Ship Cooner (Delaware-172), launched 25 July 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, sponsored by Mistress
I. Cooner.
And commissioned 21 August 1943, was so named in Cooner’s honor.