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Personal info

Full name
WILSON, Harry Samuel
Date of birth
4 February 1919
Age
26
Place of birth
Cohutta, Whitfield County, Georgia
Hometown
Hamilton County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
O-432783
Rank
Major
Function
Co-Pilot
Unit
778th Bombardment Squadron,
464th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 March 1945
Place of death
Zellerndorf, Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
George W. Wilson (father)
Ethel Wilson (mother)
William H. Wilson (brother)
F. Rosslyn (Branden) Wilson (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
44-49194
Data
Type: B-24L
Nickname: Bonnie Annie Laurie II
Destination: Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Mission: Bombing of the marshalling yards
MACR: 13194

More information

Maj Harry S. Wilson attended the University of Tennessee.

T/Sgt Frank B. Doner: "I was waist gunner on Capt Brown’s crew, flying White I in number 11 position, Baker Box. About two hours before target, White T, the group’s lead ship, changed places with Yellow J in number 12 position, Able Box. Right after the target, I noticed White T moved back and to the right out of position and later resumed her place. Soon after, White T started to lose altitude. A few minutes later parachutes appeared and I counted eight. During this period the sip appeared to be under control. There seemed to be neither fire nor smoke."

He was still in the airplane when it crashed on the ground.

Maj Wilson is remembered at the Greenwood Cemetery in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1940 Census, www.fold3.com, http://aircrewremembered.com/USAAFCombatOperations/Mar.45.html
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel / Chuck, East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association