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Personal info

Full name
SPICER, Harold Higson
Date of birth
5 August 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylania
Hometown
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O-555137
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
405th Fighter Squadron,
371st Fighter Group
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 March 1945
Place of death
Metz airfield, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 14 67

Immediate family

Members
George D. Spicer (father)
Bertha K. (Higson) Spicer (mother)
George D. Spicer (brother)
Charles S. Spicer (brother)
Alfred Spicer (brother)
Dorothy H. (Mosher) Spicer (wife)
Diane H. Spicer (daughter)
Sandra M. Spicer (daughter)

More information

1st Lt Harold H. Spicer was employed as an aero-engineering mechanic at the RCAF Station Dartmouth, in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia. After his RCAF service, he returned to the United States and enlisted in July 1944. He was sent overseas in December 1944.

He was apparently hit enemy small arms fire, but was able to fly his aircraft back toward the home airfield at Metz. Unfortunately, he crashed near the airfield and was killed.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / 1920 Census, https://371stfightergroup.wordpress.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten