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Contact Info
Home Town Waco
Last Address WOODWAY, TX
Date of Passing May 24, 2010
Location of Interment Rosemound Cemetery - Waco, Texas
During WWII, Sgt. Harris flew as a radio-gunner aboard B-17G (#42-31678), nost art "Little Patches". He flew with the 324th and 401st Bomb Squadrons, 91st Bombardment Group (H), 8th Air Force. He began combat service in the ETO at RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England (U.S.A.A.F. Station 121). He flew 35 combat missions.
During the Korean War, he served as a radio operator in the 3rd Air Rescue Squadron in various aircraft including: C-47s,
B-17s and SA-16s.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Northern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
July / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Northern France Campaign 25 July to 14 September 1944) Bombardment along a five-mile stretch of the German line enabled the Allies to break through on 25 July. While some armored forces drove southward into Brittany, others fanned out to the east and, overcoming a desperate counterattack, executed a pincers movement that trapped many Germans in a pocket at Falaise. The enemy fell back on the Siegfried Line, and by mid-September 1944 nearly all of France had been liberated. During these operations in France, while light and medium bombers and fighter-bomber aircraft of Ninth Air Force had been engaged in close support and interdictory operations, Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had continued their strategic bombing.
