Harold enlisted in January 1943 when working for the John Deere Tractor Co. After training and crewing up they picked up a plane in Nebraska to fly the northern route to Scotland. They became lost over open sea and - almost out of fuel and just over the coast - crash landed. British soldiers appeared, apparently they had just flown over the naval base at Scapa Flow. He flew on 35 combat missions with the Group at Shipham, his most memorable those in support of the D-Day landings and one over Berlin when visibility at the base was almost zero because of fog when there were collisions on the runway, 27 took off and 9 were shot down.



DFC; Air Medal with 4 clusters