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Personal info

Full name
HARRIS, James Edward "Jim"
Date of birth
5 February 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Webster County, Nebraska
Hometown
Webster County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
O-747402
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
764th Bombardment Squadron,
461st Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
25 July 1944
Place of death
Bad Zell, Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 9 37

Immediate family

Members
Robert E. Harris (father)
Julia Harris (mother)
Robert Harris (brother)
Mabel E. Harris (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-52459
Data
Type: B-24H
Nickname: Winona Belle
Destination: Linz, Austria
Mission: Bombing of the Herman Göring tank works
MACR: 11978

More information

1st Lt James E. Harris graduated from Red Cloud High School.

S/Sgt Edward A. Rose:
Tail gunner in lead ship of C flight, which consisted of five ships. Saw three chips from our flight destroyed by enemy fighters and flak. I saw about seven destroyed from four of our flights. All 3 ships destroyed from C flight were on fire and the ships flown by Lt Freeman and Lt Stitch blew up. Lt Mitchell’s ship burned until it hit the ground. There were at least five parachutes from that aircraft. The other two planes from C flight, flown by Lt Freeman and Lt Stitch, had at least two or three chutes come from them before they blew up.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.fold3.com, http://www.461st.org, Nebraska Birth Index, 1930 US Census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Loren Bender