James Cornelius Harrington

Military

Joined RAFVR, trained to be a service pilot in US, shipped overseas to ETO, operational training at 58 OTU, assigned to 71[Eagle] Sqn RAF, transferred from RAF to 334th FS, 4th Fg, 8th AF USAAF. On 3 January 1943 flying Tiger Moth II DE746 took off from RAF Station Thame on a navigation training flight to Debden. Lost, struck a pole and hit the ground at Parkside Farm, Hadley Road, Enfield, Middlesex. He and passenger Eugene Grunow survived uninjured.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 355th Fighter Group 358th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 352nd Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron No 71 'Eagle' Squadron No 121 'Eagle' Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: Tiger Moth
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

New York City, New York 28 July 1918

Enlisted

Waldorf Astoria New York 27 October 1941 Met with the Clayton Right Comittee and was selected to join the RAF

Other

Mid air collision

Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23, UK 26 November 1942 Mid Air Collision in Spitfire EN915 with Spitfire W3636 Bishop's Stortford 26-Nov-42.

Died

Saudi Arabia 3 September 1967 Killed in an aircraft crash whilst serving as a Pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, flying Sheik Mohammed bin Laden.

Other

Training

RAF Balado Bridge Trained with No 58 Operation Training Unit at RAF Balado Bridge, Scotland

Other

Married Ivy Elizabeth

Revisions

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Sources

Information provided by Harrington's Nephew- William Walker.

An Eagle Squadron "Gremlin" comes home

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Transferred information from duplicate record

Additional information from Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list/ Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.4thfightergroupassociation.org/pilots.html

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / sister, Evelyn Harrington Colkin, Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p 62