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Bonner attended United States Merchant Marine Academy in 1943 and served as a Cadet Midshipman (officer) aboard U.S. Merchant Marine tankers and freighters. Completing two voyages through the Pacific Theater , Burma , Murmansk , Suez , and the Mediterranean , Bonner saw combat action when he successfully downed a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft.

Bonner later served as Master Sergeant for the United States Army until he was honorably discharged in 1947.