Jack Miller Harrington

Military
media-25889.jpeg UPL 25889 Top L-R Michael Gagich, Gerald S Harvey, Willam R Boree, Adelbert D Shereck, and Jack M Harrington.
Bottom L-R Thurman M Geren, Charles R Wilson, William W Jeffers and Harry E Cobb.

Daughter

Object Number - UPL 25889 - Top L-R Michael Gagich, Gerald S Harvey, Willam R Boree, Adelbert D Shereck, and Jack M Harrington. Bottom L-R Thurman M Geren, Charles R Wilson,...

Most significant experience occurred on 16-Febr-45 as consequence of bombing mission of Gelsenkirchen oil refinery. Because of flak damage to aircraft during and following bomb run, we were unable to return to England and were forced to ditch in the North Sea about 10 miles off Holland. The aircraft broke in two just aft of radio room. The 9-man crew survived the ditching and subsequent very cold and wet exposure for over 12 hours until washing ashore at a German coastal installation near Haarlem, Holland. All became Prisoner of War (POW) until liberated by U. S. Forces from Stalag VIIA at Mooseberg, Germany on 29-Apr-45. Plane was B-17 43-38187 'Carrie B'.



Awards: PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19161773 and O-710455
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33683670
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-?
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17136337
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-2072764
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Carrie B II
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 16 February 1945

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 13D, Oflag 73

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Shawnee, OK 12 November 1925 Son of M M Harrington.

Enlisted

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States 16 February 1944 as a Private in the Air Corps

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Nuremberg-Langwasser, Germany 16 February 1945 POW Stalag XIII D Nuremberg-Langwasser - Stalag VII A Moosburg. NARA WWII POW database : "Returned to Military Control 19/10/1945"...

Died

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States 9 December 1999

Buried

Rose Hill Burial Park Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, OK 12 December 1999 Rose Hill Burial Park Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Based

Deenethorpe 16 February 1945 Assigned to 613BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records

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changed middle name into small letters

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MACR 12246

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12446 / MACR 12446,

href="http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1917">http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1917> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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